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How Splunk DB manages data which has record of same timestamp

snehal8
Path Finder

Hello everyone,

i read this following link

this

Now i have one question in my mind,what happen when more than 10 records has same time stamp in database,then how splunk will handle this. it take which record came fast?

i know this is silly question,but i want to clear how process will go.

thank you

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jbsplunk
Splunk Employee
Splunk Employee

Splunk can index up to 100,000 records with the same time stamp. After that we'll start to increment the timestamp. For a detailed discussion of this, please see:

http://splunk-base.splunk.com/answers/303/whats-max-events-i-can-have-timestamped-with-a-particular-...

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jbsplunk
Splunk Employee
Splunk Employee

Splunk can index up to 100,000 records with the same time stamp. After that we'll start to increment the timestamp. For a detailed discussion of this, please see:

http://splunk-base.splunk.com/answers/303/whats-max-events-i-can-have-timestamped-with-a-particular-...

snehal8
Path Finder

Thank you.

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