Is it possible to weight splunk agents to prioritize specific indexers?

[sonicZ]

I would like to weight certain indexers more then others as some of my indexers are older, and some are beefy new boxes.
Is there a way to weight indexer preference, perhaps in the outputs.conf server list?

[kristian_kolb · Accepted solution]

No, you can't do that AFAIK. There is no such setting.

What you can do is to have half your forwarders to loadbalance between the new beefy indexers only, and the other half to loadbalance between all indexers. Adjust numbers to your environment.

Or if you can accomplish this through some third party loadbalancing product that has this functionality (i.e. configure forwarders to send to one address - the load balancer). This is not my area though, and I do not know any particular products that would support it.

Hope this helps,

Kristian