https://community.splunk.com/t5/Splunk-Search/How-do-check-the-number-of-events-of-an-index/m-p/72424#M180951 <P>Use <CODE>dbinspect</CODE>: <A href="http://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/5.0.3/SearchReference/Dbinspect">http://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/5.0.3/SearchReference/Dbinspect</A></P> Sun, 23 Jun 2013 18:14:21 GMT Ayn 2013-06-23T18:14:21Z https://community.splunk.com/t5/Splunk-Search/How-do-check-the-number-of-events-of-an-index/m-p/72422#M180949 <P>For example, I have added some other indexes, I want to know that whether the events have been sent into the corresponding index ?<BR /> And I also want to know that the NUMBER of events of that index?</P> Sun, 23 Jun 2013 17:09:14 GMT https://community.splunk.com/t5/Splunk-Search/How-do-check-the-number-of-events-of-an-index/m-p/72422#M180949 perlish 2013-06-23T17:09:14Z https://community.splunk.com/t5/Splunk-Search/How-do-check-the-number-of-events-of-an-index/m-p/72423#M180950 <P>Depending on your specific needs, you either need metadata or dbinspect.</P> <P><A href="http://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/latest/SearchReference/metadata">http://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/latest/SearchReference/metadata</A><BR /> <A href="http://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/latest/SearchReference/dbinspect">http://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/latest/SearchReference/dbinspect</A></P> Sun, 23 Jun 2013 18:14:16 GMT https://community.splunk.com/t5/Splunk-Search/How-do-check-the-number-of-events-of-an-index/m-p/72423#M180950 martin_mueller 2013-06-23T18:14:16Z https://community.splunk.com/t5/Splunk-Search/How-do-check-the-number-of-events-of-an-index/m-p/72424#M180951 <P>Use <CODE>dbinspect</CODE>: <A href="http://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/5.0.3/SearchReference/Dbinspect">http://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/5.0.3/SearchReference/Dbinspect</A></P> Sun, 23 Jun 2013 18:14:21 GMT https://community.splunk.com/t5/Splunk-Search/How-do-check-the-number-of-events-of-an-index/m-p/72424#M180951 Ayn 2013-06-23T18:14:21Z https://community.splunk.com/t5/Splunk-Search/How-do-check-the-number-of-events-of-an-index/m-p/72425#M180952 <P>The easiest way is probably using <CODE>eventcount</CODE>:</P> <PRE><CODE>| eventcount index=myindex </CODE></PRE> <P><A href="http://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/5.0.3/SearchReference/Eventcount">http://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/5.0.3/SearchReference/Eventcount</A></P> <P>Note that <CODE>dbinspect</CODE> is good, but will not work in a distributed cluster, thought it can be run independently on each indexer. </P> Mon, 24 Jun 2013 02:33:22 GMT https://community.splunk.com/t5/Splunk-Search/How-do-check-the-number-of-events-of-an-index/m-p/72425#M180952 gkanapathy 2013-06-24T02:33:22Z