https://community.splunk.com/t5/Monitoring-Splunk/difference-between-splunkd-and-splunkweb/m-p/165338#M1833 <P>Hi rameshlpatel,</P> <P><CODE>splunkd</CODE> is the main Splunk process, which spawns other <CODE>splunkd</CODE> helper processes which are your searches. <CODE>splunkweb</CODE> is the webserver for the Splunk user interface, the one you access in your webbrowser.</P> <P>You can see the pid's for the processes if your run the following command <CODE>$SPLUNK_HOME/bin/splunk status</CODE></P> <P>hope this helps ...</P> <P>cheers, MuS</P> Thu, 15 May 2014 13:09:13 GMT MuS 2014-05-15T13:09:13Z https://community.splunk.com/t5/Monitoring-Splunk/difference-between-splunkd-and-splunkweb/m-p/165337#M1832 <P>Hi,</P> <P>Need help to understand difference between splunkd and splunkweb ? What i know is its running in different Ports.</P> Thu, 15 May 2014 13:03:50 GMT https://community.splunk.com/t5/Monitoring-Splunk/difference-between-splunkd-and-splunkweb/m-p/165337#M1832 rameshlpatel 2014-05-15T13:03:50Z https://community.splunk.com/t5/Monitoring-Splunk/difference-between-splunkd-and-splunkweb/m-p/165338#M1833 <P>Hi rameshlpatel,</P> <P><CODE>splunkd</CODE> is the main Splunk process, which spawns other <CODE>splunkd</CODE> helper processes which are your searches. <CODE>splunkweb</CODE> is the webserver for the Splunk user interface, the one you access in your webbrowser.</P> <P>You can see the pid's for the processes if your run the following command <CODE>$SPLUNK_HOME/bin/splunk status</CODE></P> <P>hope this helps ...</P> <P>cheers, MuS</P> Thu, 15 May 2014 13:09:13 GMT https://community.splunk.com/t5/Monitoring-Splunk/difference-between-splunkd-and-splunkweb/m-p/165338#M1833 MuS 2014-05-15T13:09:13Z