Knowledge Management

What are the summary index improvements in 4.2?

nbharadwaj
Path Finder

We have summary indexes currently but we have problems:

  • When splunkd is down for maintenance summaries have gaps

How is this better in 4.2? What are the other benefits?

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yannK
Splunk Employee
Splunk Employee

You can try the backfilling method, that was already available on previous versions

http://www.splunk.com/base/Documentation/4.2/Knowledge/Managesummaryindexgapsandoverlaps

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