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Monitoring Splunk Users Search Disk Usage

sanderso67
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I would like to understand the profile our users have for their searches in order to determine the optimal value to place the default search disk quota at. Where would that type of information be logged in the internal tables?

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Splunk Employee
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A quick way to determine a user's quota is to run the following search on the search head:

| rest splunk_server=local /services/search/jobs | eval diskUsageMB=diskUsage/1024/1024 | stats sum(diskUsageMB) by eai:acl.owner

Hope this helps.

d.

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_d_
Splunk Employee
Splunk Employee

A quick way to determine a user's quota is to run the following search on the search head:

| rest splunk_server=local /services/search/jobs | eval diskUsageMB=diskUsage/1024/1024 | stats sum(diskUsageMB) by eai:acl.owner

Hope this helps.

d.

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