Why does Splunk Cloud have search head as standalone and not in a search head cluster ?

[dm1]

Why does Splunk Cloud have search head as standalone and not in a search head cluster ?

How does Splunk engg team manages maintenance and upgrade task in this scenario ?

[gcusello]

Hi @dm1,

you don't see the infrastructure of the Splunk Cloud Service, but you are using a Search Head Cluster and an Indexer Cluster.

About maintenance, please read https://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/SplunkCloud/8.2.2107/Service/SplunkCloudservice#Maintenance

In addition you could also read:

https://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/SplunkCloud/8.2.2107/Admin/Intro

Ciao.

Giuseppe