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Safe time to add an index

aohls
Contributor

I was searching through the documentation but did not find anything on this. I was looking to create an index but I see on the indexes page it says it could trigger a rolling restart for some actions. Does this include creating a new index? The link on the page brings me to general help, not anything specific. I did not see anything when looking through the documentation either.

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DavidHourani
Super Champion

Hi @aohls,

Look here for changes that require a rolling restart for the indexer cluster :
https://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/7.3.1/Indexer/Updatepeerconfigurations#Restart_or_reloa...

And here for index configuration changes :
https://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/7.3.1/Indexer/Determinerestart

As you can see adding a new index does not require a restart :

You do not need to restart the indexer if you only make these changes:

Adding new index stanzas.

Cheers,
David

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DavidHourani
Super Champion

Hi @aohls,

Look here for changes that require a rolling restart for the indexer cluster :
https://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/7.3.1/Indexer/Updatepeerconfigurations#Restart_or_reloa...

And here for index configuration changes :
https://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/7.3.1/Indexer/Determinerestart

As you can see adding a new index does not require a restart :

You do not need to restart the indexer if you only make these changes:

Adding new index stanzas.

Cheers,
David

aohls
Contributor

Thanks @DavidHourani this is helpful to know.

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DavidHourani
Super Champion

You're welcome !

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