Monitoring Splunk

How to free space on /opt/splunkcolddata ?

Reethika
Path Finder

Hi,

Please suggest me,

Methods for freeing some space on /opt/splunkcolddata on indexer. how to reduce the retention data, for indexed data. 

Thanks. 

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richgalloway
SplunkTrust
SplunkTrust
See https://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/8.0.4/Indexer/Setaretirementandarchivingpolicy for a description of how to control when Splunk archives data.
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