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splunk housekeeping - directories in /opt/splunk/var/tmp/data

Skins
Path Finder

I have 23000 (yes 000) directories in /opt/splunk/var/tmp/data

I can't find info in docs as to what this is - how best to find out ?

each directory has files in such as :

part-00000.gz
part-00001.gz
part-00002.gz
part-00003.gz
part-00004.gz
part-00005.gz

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p_gurav
Champion

Which Splunk version you are using?

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Skins
Path Finder

looks to be a security app logging to this dir with no cleanup script

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justincatjds
Engager

Hi Skins, can you tell us what app this was? We're experiencing the same issue.

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