Deployment Architecture

How to prevent search head crashes due to large exports

danielbb
Motivator

A user tried to export 110,000,000 events today to excel and crashed our SH twice.

How can we prevent it?

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mayurr98
Super Champion

could you pls check, if crash* log exists in your search head $SPLUNK_HOME$\var\log\splunk. If it then you would possibly find an error due to which it crashed.

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danielbb
Motivator

No crash report there...

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