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Can you help me understand this alert I'm getting on our forwarder?: "Problem with process: splunkd"

ramprakash
Explorer

Hi everyone.. Please help me in understanding the below alert that came from our forwarder. It is critical.

Summary:

enter code here Problem with process: splunkd -p 8089 start. Error encountered: less processes than expected.. Process count: 0
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ddrillic
Ultra Champion

Apparently the splunk process didn't come up.

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ramprakash
Explorer

But everything is working fine. It is indexing data. I don't know what to do

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