Why is the summary index backfill script failing to run and says timeout?

[Prakash493]

Hi , i am running the script for summary indexing backfill , after running few times its getting failed says time out ? what will be the issue ?

le "/opt/splunk/lib/python2.7/site-packages/splunk/rest/__init__.py", line 500, in simpleRequest
    raise splunk.SplunkdConnectionException,  'Error connecting to %s: %s' % (path, str(e))
splunk.SplunkdConnectionException: Splunkd daemon is not responding: ("Error connecting to /servicesNS/dgk1/search/saved/searches , The read operation timeout

[codebuilder · Accepted solution]

The summarization search is timing out before it can complete.
Decrease your time range or increase your parallel summarization threads.

To do that you would increase (or set) the value of auto_summarize.max_concurrent in savedsearches.conf
The default value is 1, so I would start by setting it to 2 then re-evaluate performance.

[Prakash493]

Thank you so much for info

[codebuilder]

Sure, glad to help!