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How to fix a disk space warning for /opt/splunk/var/lib/splunk/audit/db

Glasses
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The diskspace remaining=8376 has breached the yellow threshold for filesystems=[/opt/splunk/var/lib/splunk/audit/db]
06-18-2019 14:30:39.377 -0500 WARN DiskMon - MinFreeSpace=5000. The diskspace remaining=8376 is less than 2 x minFreeSpace

In the .../audit dir only db has data, nothing in colddb etc...

I am not sending them to a frozen path, I was hoping they would roll...

How do I set this to roll or drop after it reaches 2GB?

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martynoconnor
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If you would rather roll data out by time or space limit, that's something for indexes.conf and you can see how to do that here:

https://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/7.3.0/Indexer/Configureindexstorage

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martynoconnor
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If you would rather roll data out by time or space limit, that's something for indexes.conf and you can see how to do that here:

https://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/7.3.0/Indexer/Configureindexstorage

Glasses
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thanks, cannot believe I did not think of that...

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martynoconnor
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No worries. 🙂

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martynoconnor
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Hi there,

You can change the value of the free disk space that triggers the warning in limits.conf - see the docs link below:

https://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/7.3.0/Indexer/Setlimitsondiskusage#Set_minimum_free_dis...

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