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"Search auto-canceled" error during search query , what is solution?

milad001mehdi
New Member

Good day

I configured Splunk to receive Cisco ASA firewall log on udp 5141 port and installed ASA add-on for parsing logs with "Cisco.ASA" source type.
It's necessary to say you, i received about1000000 logs per minutes.
I have problem with searching query in Splunk. when i search a simple query like: "index=fw_251" (the name of asa index that receive logs is fw_251) during 1h, Splunk can't send me all of logs and show this error: "Search auto-canceled" after several minutes. (just show me last 4 minutes of 60 minutes) and paused.
Why this error occur?
I monitored all of resources like ram,cpu, ... . every things is okey.
Do have any suggestion for me?

Thank you

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raghuramj
New Member

Hi,

As per your query understood the events are more than 1000000, check the below links and Hope this helps your query!

https://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/7.1.2/Admin/Limitsconf

https://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/7.1.2/Admin/Savedsearchesconf#dispatch_search_options

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raghuramj
New Member

Hi,

As per your query understood that events are more than 1000000, kindly go through the below links . Hope this helps your query!

https://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/7.1.2/Admin/Limitsconf

https://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/7.1.2/Admin/Savedsearchesconf#dispatch_search_options

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