topic Re: about metrics.log:name in Splunk Search https://community.splunk.com/t5/Splunk-Search/about-metrics-log-name/m-p/357828#M175099 <PRE><CODE>&lt;mythbusted&gt;I believe it denotes pipelines when parallelization is being used &lt;\mythbusted&gt; </CODE></PRE> <P>EDIT: My bad, I was thinking of Ingest_pipe=*</P> <P>The number on the end of the name appears to be an index of all the unique receivers in that group</P> <BLOCKQUOTE> <P>name is a combination of conf stanza and entries that fully define the target system to the software.</P> </BLOCKQUOTE> <P><A href="https://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/6.5.2/Troubleshooting/Aboutmetricslog#Tcpout_Connections_messages">https://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/6.5.2/Troubleshooting/Aboutmetricslog#Tcpout_Connections_messages</A></P> <P>My tcpout_connection entry looks like this:</P> <PRE><CODE>name=default-autolb-group:10.10.31.83:9997:0 </CODE></PRE> <P>because the default-autolb-group only contains one indexer.....will add another and confirm</P> <P>In your example do the numbers match the amount of unique indexers?</P> Tue, 21 Mar 2017 05:13:40 GMT mattymo 2017-03-21T05:13:40Z about metrics.log:name https://community.splunk.com/t5/Splunk-Search/about-metrics-log-name/m-p/357827#M175098 <P>What is the last value of name in metrics.log?</P> <P>name=default-autolb-group:172.01.01.01:9997:0<BR /> name=default-autolb-group:172.01.01.01:9997:1</P> <P>What does (0 OR 1) mean?</P> Thu, 16 Mar 2017 09:01:02 GMT https://community.splunk.com/t5/Splunk-Search/about-metrics-log-name/m-p/357827#M175098 HiroshiSatoh 2017-03-16T09:01:02Z Re: about metrics.log:name https://community.splunk.com/t5/Splunk-Search/about-metrics-log-name/m-p/357828#M175099 <PRE><CODE>&lt;mythbusted&gt;I believe it denotes pipelines when parallelization is being used &lt;\mythbusted&gt; </CODE></PRE> <P>EDIT: My bad, I was thinking of Ingest_pipe=*</P> <P>The number on the end of the name appears to be an index of all the unique receivers in that group</P> <BLOCKQUOTE> <P>name is a combination of conf stanza and entries that fully define the target system to the software.</P> </BLOCKQUOTE> <P><A href="https://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/6.5.2/Troubleshooting/Aboutmetricslog#Tcpout_Connections_messages">https://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/6.5.2/Troubleshooting/Aboutmetricslog#Tcpout_Connections_messages</A></P> <P>My tcpout_connection entry looks like this:</P> <PRE><CODE>name=default-autolb-group:10.10.31.83:9997:0 </CODE></PRE> <P>because the default-autolb-group only contains one indexer.....will add another and confirm</P> <P>In your example do the numbers match the amount of unique indexers?</P> Tue, 21 Mar 2017 05:13:40 GMT https://community.splunk.com/t5/Splunk-Search/about-metrics-log-name/m-p/357828#M175099 mattymo 2017-03-21T05:13:40Z Re: about metrics.log:name https://community.splunk.com/t5/Splunk-Search/about-metrics-log-name/m-p/357829#M175100 <P>Hi, mmodestino<BR /> I thought so, but there are obviously more numbers than pipeline number.</P> Wed, 22 Mar 2017 06:18:13 GMT https://community.splunk.com/t5/Splunk-Search/about-metrics-log-name/m-p/357829#M175100 HiroshiSatoh 2017-03-22T06:18:13Z Re: about metrics.log:name https://community.splunk.com/t5/Splunk-Search/about-metrics-log-name/m-p/357830#M175101 <P>what do you mean?<BR /> do you not have parallelization turned on?</P> Wed, 22 Mar 2017 10:16:32 GMT https://community.splunk.com/t5/Splunk-Search/about-metrics-log-name/m-p/357830#M175101 mattymo 2017-03-22T10:16:32Z Re: about metrics.log:name https://community.splunk.com/t5/Splunk-Search/about-metrics-log-name/m-p/357831#M175102 <P>ah I see what you mean...updating answer</P> Wed, 22 Mar 2017 13:51:43 GMT https://community.splunk.com/t5/Splunk-Search/about-metrics-log-name/m-p/357831#M175102 mattymo 2017-03-22T13:51:43Z