Getting Data In

Lost AWS events after ingestion

vishalduttauk
Communicator

I am in the middle of a Splunk migration. One of the tasks is to moved data from some sourcetypes onto the new servers using the | collect index=aws sourcetype=* command.

The numbers added up after running checks. I run the same checks again a day later and the numbers no longer match up.

Source 1 -> Old Splunk New Splunk Source 2 -> Old Splunk New Splunk
August 12,478,853 12,478,853   26,171,911 26,171,911

 

24 hours later

Source 1 -> Old Splunk New Splunk Source 2 -> Old Splunk New Splunk
  12,478,853 12,477,696   26,171,911 3,001,183

 

I've set the following stanza within the indexes.conf file on the deployment server. Also the index only contains 22gb of data. Can you help?

[aws]

coldPath = $SPLUNK_DB\$_index_name\colddb
enableDataIntegrityControl = 0
enableTsidxReduction = 0
homePath = $SPLUNK_DB\$_index_name\db
maxTotalDataSizeMB = 512000
thawedPath = $SPLUNK_DB\$_index_name\thaweddb
frozenTimePeriodInSecs=94608000
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PickleRick
SplunkTrust
SplunkTrust

Most probably your data was rolled out due to either retention period or index/volume size limits.

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tej57
Builder

Hello @vishalduttauk,

Can you provide the complete search that you used for migrating the data from one server to other?

Thanks,
Tejas. 

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vishalduttauk
Communicator

index=aws but i ended up logging onto both servers and moving the whole index from "old" Splunk over to "new" Splunk

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