Monitoring Splunk

Splunk Indexer server crashes and keep going down

Zarack
Engager

Hello, I have a server indexer that crashes from time to time, what is the best way to investigate what caused the problem?

How can I see the logs through index=_internal and splunkd.log?

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SonOfBuzi
Loves-to-Learn Lots

 there is crash logs on the server in $SPLUNK_HOME/var/log/splunk/crash*.log it gets ingested under sourcetype=splunkd_crash_log

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