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Different search performance for two sourcetype

pradeepchhetri
Engager

Hi,

We have a splunk machine running with all the events going to one index. I noticed that for two different sourcetype, I got different search performance. For one of the sourcetype, searching happened very quickly but it was very slow for the other. Can someone explain me why i am getting such a difference.

Regards.

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MuS
Legend

Hi pradeepchhetri,

This is the kind of question, that is almost impossible for anyone to answer, except to you - because you know your setup, know your events, know your server's load and so on.....

here are some basic troubleshooting things:

  • do both sourcetypes have exactly the same event count over the exact same time range?
  • is your search head / indexer over loaded?
  • are there any saved searches running?
  • check the job inspector to get any idea why one search is running slower as the other.

you see, there is a lot to check for you.

cheers, MuS

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MuS
Legend

Hi pradeepchhetri,

This is the kind of question, that is almost impossible for anyone to answer, except to you - because you know your setup, know your events, know your server's load and so on.....

here are some basic troubleshooting things:

  • do both sourcetypes have exactly the same event count over the exact same time range?
  • is your search head / indexer over loaded?
  • are there any saved searches running?
  • check the job inspector to get any idea why one search is running slower as the other.

you see, there is a lot to check for you.

cheers, MuS

pradeepchhetri
Engager

@Mus: @martin_mueller: Just realized that the difference was due to fast-mode and smart-mode search types, although both has same number of events. Thank you for the help.

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martin_mueller
SplunkTrust
SplunkTrust

I'm going to guess that production will have much more data than staging.

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pradeepchhetri
Engager

@Mus: Thank you for the reply. I will do the troubleshooting accordingly and let you know the outcome.

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pradeepchhetri
Engager

my search query just includes: sourcetype="production" and sourcetype="staging"

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splunker12er
Motivator

Can you post your search query ?

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