Distributed Search - Splunk Community

Getting Data In

Looking for answers on the following (with regards to the distributed search):

1.) An explanation on how the distributed search works.

2.) Explanation on roles of the Search Head and Search Peers (as it pertains to the distributed search).

3.) How to configure a distributed search group

4.) How to list search head scaling options.

Thank you in advance.

-KB

All of that is well documented at docs.splunk.com

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