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Does the events get deleted after increasing maxTotalDataSizeMB?

rajyah
Communicator

The index reached 90% of its data size, does increasing the maxTotalDataSizeMB affects the older ingested events?

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niketn
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@rajyah if you have Disk space available you can increase the size, older data should not get impacted. You can test out on any non-prod version or local instance.

Also you should be aware that data will still rollover to frozen depending on time selected for frozenTimePeriodInSecs.

https://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/latest/Indexer/Setaretirementandarchivingpolicy

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niketn
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@rajyah if you have Disk space available you can increase the size, older data should not get impacted. You can test out on any non-prod version or local instance.

Also you should be aware that data will still rollover to frozen depending on time selected for frozenTimePeriodInSecs.

https://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/latest/Indexer/Setaretirementandarchivingpolicy

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rajyah
Communicator

Thank you very much.

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