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How to resolve when data getting duplicated twice in indexers?

mpreddy
Communicator

Hi Splunkers,

I have noticed an issue in my Splunk environment:

Issue:

Data is getting duplicated twice in indexers. If i do a search in search head, the same events are coming in twice. this issue started 2 days ago, earlier there is no issue with the data.

My Investigations:

1)checked the application logs wether same log is existing twice? Answer: No
2)Checked whether this issue is happening to one sourcetype OR only for one index OR one forwarder? Answer: No it is affecting all forwarders and indexers data.

My questions:

  • Is the issue is from the Indexer cluster side?
  • Is the issue is from the forwarder side?
  • Or any other reason why it is happening? and what are the steps need to prevent it?

Thanks in advance.

Regards,
Reddy.

1 Solution

vasanthmss
Motivator

Seems like an issue from 6.3.x upgrade to newer version after 6.4.x would fix the issue.

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vasanthmss
Motivator

Seems like an issue from 6.3.x upgrade to newer version after 6.4.x would fix the issue.

V

erwan_raulet
Explorer

I have the same problem and my version is Splunk Enterprise 6.5.3. Do you have an issue?

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sreekarnapu1109
New Member

I have same issue my data is getting doubled in indexers each time a log is captured

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dxu_splunk
Splunk Employee
Splunk Employee

are the duplicate events coming from the same bucket or different buckets? you can isolate one of the duplicate events, and then check with bucket+splunk_server the event and its duplicates are being returned from

"some_dup_event | eval bkt=_bkt | fields + bkt,splunk_server"

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lguinn2
Legend

Something changed in your configuration. Did someone change outputs.conf. on the forwarders?
If no one changed the source data files, then someone must have changed a Splunk setting in some .conf file

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mpreddy
Communicator

@lguinn

We did not touched any config files in forwarders.

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