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Is the performance impacted when you secure data transmission between forwarder and indexer?

SAICronbuzon
New Member

I want to know if there are performance/resources impact on your forwarders/indexers. I will be following the link below.

docs(.)splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/7.0.2/Security/ConfigureSplunkforwardingtousesignedcertificates

Any thoughts will be appreciated.

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deepashri_123
Motivator

Hey SAICronbuzon,

There shouldn't be performance impact due to securing your network.
Here is the blog which suggests the same.
https://www.maxcdn.com/blog/ssl-performance-myth/

Hope this helps!!!

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