Deployment Architecture

Splunk index congestion is happening

sravani387
New Member

Hi,
I suddenly got this message "skipped indexing of internal audit event will keep dropping events until indexer congestion is remedied. Check disk space and other issues that may cause indexer to block"
I am not able to index data can anyone suggest me how to solve this.

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ddrillic
Ultra Champion

A good response for this case at indexing congestion consistenly happening

It says -

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martin_mueller
SplunkTrust
SplunkTrust

Did you check indexer disk space?
Assuming that's fine, continue with the distributed management console to see if you actually have indexer congestion or if your forwarder/search head is just confused.
If everything's showing as blocked in DMC, check for relevant error messages on the indexers.

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