Why is there Socket error in the search head?

Alerting

Hi All,

Getting very frequent alert for one of my search peer from DMC even though search head is up and working fine.

observed the below error in the logs

ERROR ExecProcessor - message from "/xx/xx" Socket error communicating with splunkd (error=The read operation timed out)

Can you please help me on this issue.

Thanks in Advance.

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