Getting Data In

How to fix blocked queues?

dheeraj_t
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getting below error -

/opt/splunk/var/log/splunk # grep -i "blocked=true" metrics.log
10-03-2019 07:54:33.943 +0000 INFO Metrics - group=queue, name=aggqueue, blocked=true, max_size_kb=30720, current_size_kb=30719, current_size=86431, largest_size=86928, smallest_size=84513

Server logs -

root@:/opt/splunk/var/log/splunk # grep -i "parsingQueue" splunkd.log.5 |more
09-24-2019 04:35:36.417 +0000 WARN TailReader - Could not send data to output queue (parsingQueue), retrying...
09-24-2019 04:36:06.275 +0000 WARN TailReader - Could not send data to output queue (parsingQueue), retrying...

Matrix logs -

root@:/opt/splunk/var/log/splunk # grep -i "blocked=true" metrics.log
10-01-2019 09:06:25.809 +0000 INFO Metrics - group=queue, name=splunktcpin, blocked=true, max_size_kb=500, current_size_kb=499, current_size=378, largest_size=598, smallest_size=4
10-01-2019 09:06:57.784 +0000 INFO Metrics - group=queue, name=splunktcpin, blocked=true, max_size_kb=500, current_size_kb=499, current_size=423, largest_size=642, smallest_size=0

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