Deployment Architecture

Search and Federated Search compression ratio

edoardo_vicendo
Builder

Hello,

Supposing you have a Search Head in Cloud, doing Federated Searches to other Search Heads on-prem, which is the compression ratio (if any)?

I have found those useful information about compression between forwarders and Indexers, but not between Search Heads.

 

https://community.splunk.com/t5/Getting-Data-In/What-kind-of-compression-is-used-between-forwarders-...

https://community.splunk.com/t5/Getting-Data-In/Forwarder-Output-Compression-Ratio-what-is-the-expec...

Splunk Cloud Platform Service Details - Splunk Documentation

 

Thanks a lot,

Edoardo

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richgalloway
SplunkTrust
SplunkTrust

Compression between Federated Search client and provider is handled by SSL/TLS.

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edoardo_vicendo
Builder

Yes I know 🙂

Can we assume the same compression ratio? Or is there any official feedback on that somewhere in the docs?

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richgalloway
SplunkTrust
SplunkTrust

I'm not aware of any Splunk documentation on the matter.

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