How to troubleshoot the disk space issues on a Splunk indexer?

[Kaushikkatta03]

I need to know the step by step procedure to troubleshoot the disk space issues on an indexer.

[renjith_nair]

If you are looking for cleaning up old data, try setting the retention parameters in indexes.conf

http://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/6.0.2/Indexer/Setaretirementandarchivingpolicy
https://wiki.splunk.com/Deploy:BucketRotationAndRetention
http://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/6.1/Admin/indexesconf

[Kaushikkatta03]

thank you so much 🙂

[renjith_nair]

So is that what you were looking for ? If you are looking for some other info , just let's know otherwise Just mark as answer so that the thread will be closed

[ngatchasandra]

Hi Kaushikkatta03,

Try to follow the links: http://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/6.0.3/Indexer/Moveanindex#For_Windows_users and
http://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/6.0.3/Indexer/Configureindexstorage

they will help you.

[Kaushikkatta03]

thank you so much