topic Re: Is there a way to limit how long real-time searches run? in Splunk Search

Is there a way to limit how long real-time searches run?

a212830 — Mon, 19 Sep 2016 19:22:11 GMT

Hi,

Is there a way to limit how long a real-time search can run? I have customers firing them up (legitimately) and then walking away.

Re: Is there a way to limit how long real-time searches run?

somesoni2 — Mon, 19 Sep 2016 19:30:55 GMT

I don't think there is such limit to aumatically finalize/kill real-time search process. You'd need to setup some custom alerts to get list of currently running real-time search and if the duration is more that your threshold, kill it.

Re: Is there a way to limit how long real-time searches run?

twinspop — Tue, 20 Sep 2016 00:38:43 GMT

Exhibit A for why RT searches are terrible. I've banned them entirely from my environment. A dashboard with a panel that refreshes every 30s (or even 10s) is preferable IMO.

authorize.conf:

[default]
rtsearch = disabled

Re: Is there a way to limit how long real-time searches run?

ddrillic — Tue, 20 Sep 2016 00:54:44 GMT

Documentation about the subject at How to restrict usage of real-time search

At the role level you can set some restrictions -

Re: Is there a way to limit how long real-time searches run?

sloshburch — Tue, 20 Sep 2016 12:20:13 GMT

Upvoted because this is the most appropriate answer to your specific question - although I'm also more of a fan of limiting user capabilities and only promoting users into power user roles where they can do advanced things like rtsearch.

We can talk offline about ways to implement this and how to convert existing rtsearch panels accordingly.