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

---
If this reply helps you, Karma would be appreciated.

Get Updates on the Splunk Community!

Supercharging Windows Security Detection Performance: Introducing Hybrid Field ...

Windows event logs—from Security auditing and Sysmon to PowerShell script blocks—form the operational backbone ...

Enriching Signals with the OTel Lookup Processor

Introduction Raw telemetry is often incomplete. A log line might record an IP address, but what you really ...

Meet the .conf26 AI Agent Buildathon Winners

At the .conf26 AI Agent Buildathon, Splunk users turned their operational expertise into working AI agents ...