Monitoring Splunk

Re-Index _internal

rsia23
Explorer

I think I deleted my _internal index and its now not showing on my search. However the directory is still growing and I'd like to add it back in. Can I just re-index that back so I can do search on metrics.log again ? How ? thanks!

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rsia23
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Never mind, figured it out. index for _internal was not searchable under Admin Role. DOH! 😛 fixed and works..

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