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Splunk not indexing data after configuring Splunk DB Connect app

spoorthyredi
New Member

All,

We configured splunk to index data from a Oracle DataBase using Splunk DB Connect App .
Our database tables and data are very simple , and we are using free version of splunk .

Below are our observations :
Data Base Input configuration :

[InputType : Tail **

Rising Column : number type

Sourcetype : dbmon:kv

Splunk Index : default

Output format : Key-Value ]

  1. When index interval was set to AUTO , splunk indexed the data (very few new rows )at a random speed . i.e, after few hours or sometimes even after a day .

  2. When index interval is set to 60 sec - First , 10 new rows were indexed in 30 minutes .Then , for once , data (with 50 new rows ) was indexed exactly in 60 sec . After adding 150-200 new rows , indexing din't happen at all .

  3. Now we set the interval to 2 sec and inserted just 3 new rows . No indexing happened .

We suspect it is because of the load on splunk server . Could anyone please tell whats the problem here .
Appreciate any advise on how to make splunk index database data quickly .

Please help !!

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okrabbe_splunk
Splunk Employee
Splunk Employee

Have you had a chance to look at the splunkd logs? You will see errors with dbconnect there. You can search them by search "index=_internal splunkd"

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sroback_splunk
Splunk Employee
Splunk Employee

Hi. DB Connect is not supported on the free version of Splunk. See http://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/DBX/1.1.4/DeployDBX/Deploymentrequirements#Supported_Splunk_ver...

You might want to upgrade to a licensed version of Splunk Enterprise or contact Splunk support (suppport@splunk.com) to evaluate your options.

okrabbe_splunk
Splunk Employee
Splunk Employee

They are probalby using an enterprise trial to evaluate the product.

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