Monitoring Splunk

What does splunkd do?

terryloar
Path Finder

I see splunkd.service taking up a lot of CPU time. It runs as high as 50% most of the time.

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ChrisG
Splunk Employee
Splunk Employee

splunkd is the main Splunk Enterprise service - it handles all Splunk Enterprise operations.

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