Interpreting metrics log values

[rroberts]

What is the significance of cumulative_hits below? Search match hits? number of events returned from a search?

07-09-2010 08:59:37.229 INFO Metrics - group=pipeline, name=exec, processor=sendout, cpu_seconds=0.000000, executes=10, cumulative_hits=735

[ftk]

jrodman recently posted an interesting blog going into detail on metrics.log. Check it out here: http://blogs.splunk.com/2010/08/13/some-details-on-metrics-log-data-format-utility/

[rroberts]

Thanks saw the blog but I don't think cumulative_hits was defined. It did have other interesting details .

[Stephen_Sorkin · Accepted solution]

In group=pipeline in metrics.log, cumulative_hits is the number of times the given index-time processor (in this case sendout in the exec pipeline) has been executed since splunkd was last restarted.