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Search auto canceling

msplunk33
Path Finder

When ever I run some query my search is getting auto cancelled. My search head is a single search heard  and searching on a indexer cluster. What could be the reason. We face this after the recent upgrade to 7.3

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Goesta
Explorer

We're facing the same problem, have you ever found a solution for this?

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msplunk33
Path Finder

In our case the user was opening many tab and executing many searches that was causing the searches to auto canceling. After educating the user the issue is resolved.

Nisha18789
Builder

@msplunk33 Have you tried looking into the splunk internal logs for any errors or warnings that might be logging for this.

index=_internal sourcetype=splunkd log_level!=INFO *<your splunk login userid>*

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