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How to delete a index permanantly in clustered environment?

kiran331
Builder

HI,

If I remove the index stanza in indexes.conf and deploy it indexers will it remove the index? OR is there any best way to do it?

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jkat54
SplunkTrust
SplunkTrust

It will not delete the files. It will only make the index non-searchable.

You'll need to log into each indexer and delete the data on the file system.

By default it is found under /opt/splunk/var/lib/splunk/{indexName}

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