Splunk Enterprise Security

Why is my server skipping a lot of accelerated searches?

manderson7
Contributor

One of my servers is skipping a lot of accelerated searches, like 80% per each hour. I've got Splunk Enterprise Security (ES) on this server, as well as these additional accelerated searches, ~48 of them. These searches are the only ones being skipped, none of the ES searches are being skipped.

I was concerned that my accelerated searches weren't formed correctly, or if I didn't have enough hardware for the box (16 CPU/64GB). If that's the case, is there something on the server I can see that will show when all the cores might be in use and for how long?

My accelerated searches have a summary range of 1 year and w/ a time range between 24 days, 30 days, or 15 minutes and now, though none of the searches are scheduled. The searches do get run, and the accelerated reports show 99% complete or fully complete summary status. Any help you can provide would be appreciated.

aaraneta_splunk
Splunk Employee
Splunk Employee

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Splunker
Communicator

As long as your forwarding your indexes to the indexers, ensure your indexer hardware specs meet (preferably exceed) the spec defined in the ES docs.

The datamodel acceleration happens on the indexers, so check those. Sounds like your SH is ok.

http://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/ES/latest/Install/DeploymentPlanning#Indexer_scaling_considerat...

Cheers.

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