Monitoring Splunk

Are the DMC Critical System Physical Memory Usage alerts inherently slow?

ddrillic
Ultra Champion

We see the following -

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The elapsed time for each one of them is high. Is it the expected behavior?

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davpx
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This doesn't mean the alerts are slow it means this is the amount of time the alerts have been activated due to high memory usage, so in this case, 30 - 50 seconds of high memory usage per search head.

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ddrillic
Ultra Champion

I thought that elapsed time is the time it took the search to run. Isn't it?

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