topic Re: Search from web UI not working in Splunk Search

Search from web UI not working

aksharp — Wed, 25 Jul 2018 23:46:48 GMT

We are in a process of setting up new splunk env on CentOS 7. As part of it we have configured 1 search head and 1 indexer server.
We added the indexer to SH in the distributed search section(distsearch.conf), the status of that indexer is "up", Replication status "Successful", healthy status "healthy and No health check failures.
We are using splunkforwarders on our servers to push data to indexers, which is also working fine, i can see data coming from the selected servers in the metrics.log on indexer.
However when i search anything from web UI it gives me "no results found", also in data summary on home page it says "Waiting for results".
Even for index="_internal" there are "no results found".

Can anyone please point me in the right direction if i'm missing anything in the configs here.

Re: Search from web UI not working

kmorris_splunk — Thu, 26 Jul 2018 01:38:01 GMT

Could it be that your user doesn't have the rights to see the indexes. Check to see that your user has a role that has access to the indexes.

Re: Search from web UI not working

adonio — Thu, 26 Jul 2018 10:06:34 GMT

start here:
http://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/7.1.2/Troubleshooting/Cantfinddata

please share your findings with the community

Re: Search from web UI not working

aksharp — Mon, 06 Aug 2018 22:31:11 GMT

Thanks for the help! Our indexers were not configured correctly, we updated some some configs and it works now.