Heavy forwarder - HttpClientRequest

[vasanthmss]

Hi ,

I am getting the following exception during the simple rest, exception is in the HttpClientRequest, I am using Splunk heavy forwarder 6.2.1.,

 ERROR IntrospectionGenerator:resource_usage -  HttpClientRequest - Caught exception while parsing HTTP reply: Unexpected character while looking for value: '<'

In addition to that this happens during high traffic time frame. What would be the next steps.

Thanks,
V

[somesoni2 · Accepted solution]

Could you provide more details on what REST endpoint you're using and how you're invoking them? Do you get this error for all invocations OR just few during high traffic?

[vasanthmss]

I'm using splunk default simple http receiver that configured in heavy forwarder. 3rd party post the data using the heavy forwarder url. 2 hour window they post the data using some scripts or something. I have got a lot of traffic coming in. Splunk couldn't handle the request

[vasanthmss]

Thanks, by increasing the open file size the issue was fixed.

[nls7010]

Where did you increase the open file size?  Was it on the cluster master or on the client?