Getting Data In

What options are available to offload the data from Splunk Indexers?

tmurata_splunk
Splunk Employee
Splunk Employee

I'm currently facing an immediate situation where my Splunk Indexers are running of of the disk space. Please let me know what options are available.

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tmurata_splunk
Splunk Employee
Splunk Employee

There are several options for you. Please see below link for more detail.
https://splunk.box.com/v/dataoffload

The quick win is the TSIDX reduction.
https://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/latest/Indexer/Reducetsidxdiskusage

Hadoop data roll would be the next when you have any Hadoop storage space.
https://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/latest/Indexer/ArchivingindexestoHadoop

I hope this helps.

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