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We have a couple of splunk envs running is aws. We rehydrated(deployed a new AMI) one of the env last week and this week I have run into a strange issue with the timing of indexed data. Before the rehydrate data was indexed typically within 5-10 mins of the eventtime. Now it appears that exactly one hour has been added to the time it takes to get the data indexed. I am at a loss to explain this??? The events are being forwarded from cloudtrail. No cloudtrail changes have occurred .
Here is a sample of events prior the env rehydration (getting a new AMI)
e_time i_time
06/20/18 08:27:18 06/20/18 08:31:40
06/20/18 08:27:03 06/20/18 08:31:40
06/20/18 08:26:48 06/20/18 08:31:40
06/20/18 08:26:32 06/20/18 08:31:40
06/20/18 05:00:14 06/20/18 05:11:13
06/20/18 04:37:59 06/20/18 04:49:45
06/20/18 03:01:46 06/20/18 03:09:51
06/20/18 02:58:34 06/20/18 03:09:51
06/20/18 03:25:55 06/20/18 03:31:40
06/20/18 03:25:39 06/20/18 03:31:40
06/20/18 03:25:36 06/20/18 03:31:40
06/20/18 03:25:21 06/20/18 03:31:40
06/20/18 03:25:20 06/20/18 03:31:40
06/20/18 00:47:21 06/20/18 00:59:58
06/19/18 23:43:47 06/19/18 23:51:38
06/19/18 23:43:31 06/19/18 23:51:38
06/19/18 23:43:31 06/19/18 23:51:38
06/19/18 21:00:13 06/19/18 21:07:14
06/19/18 20:59:58 06/19/18 21:07:14
06/19/18 20:59:43 06/19/18 21:07:14
06/19/18 20:59:28 06/19/18 21:07:14
06/19/18 20:59:27 06/19/18 21:07:14
06/19/18 19:42:55 06/19/18 19:47:33
After you can see the one hour delay
e_time i_time
06/29/18 06:32:10 06/29/18 07:35:49
06/29/18 06:29:23 06/29/18 07:35:49
06/29/18 06:28:48 06/29/18 07:35:49
06/29/18 06:28:38 06/29/18 07:35:49
06/29/18 06:28:26 06/29/18 07:35:49
06/29/18 05:40:20 06/29/18 06:46:07
06/29/18 05:40:05 06/29/18 06:46:07
06/29/18 05:39:50 06/29/18 06:46:07
06/29/18 05:39:34 06/29/18 06:46:07
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Found my answer. It was being delivered via a sqs s3 queue and there was an issue with an assigned iam role affecting one of the heavy forwarders. I single sqs-s3 input stream was not able to keep up with the traffic. Once we fixed the iam role assignment 2 input streams were able to drain the queue and the time delay went away
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Found my answer. It was being delivered via a sqs s3 queue and there was an issue with an assigned iam role affecting one of the heavy forwarders. I single sqs-s3 input stream was not able to keep up with the traffic. Once we fixed the iam role assignment 2 input streams were able to drain the queue and the time delay went away
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Sounds like a timezone issue or something like that? Did the clock on the splunk server change due to the AMI update or so?
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I checked all the servers... Time and timezone all appear to be set correctly
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