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Indexers cleaning- How is it performed in clustered architecture?

bosseres
Contributor

Hello, everyone!

I have few questions about indexers cleaning:

- How it's performed in clustered architecture?

- Does it really needed? Do I correctly understand that frozen buckets delete automatically?

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richgalloway
SplunkTrust
SplunkTrust

What do you mean by "indexers cleaning"?  What do you expect to happen during this process?

Yes, you understand correctly.  By default, frozen buckets are deleted automatically.

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bosseres
Contributor

I mean cleaning indexers from old logs

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isoutamo
SplunkTrust
SplunkTrust

"Cleaning" old events from indexes have done by setting size of index (maxTotalDataSizeMB) and/or max lifetime for events (frozenTimePeriodInSecs). There are some other attributes which can fine tune the time and indexes sizes. See those from https://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/latest/Admin/Indexesconf#PER_INDEX_OPTIONS

Here is old conf presentation about Data Lifecycle https://conf.splunk.com/files/2017/slides/splunk-data-life-cycle-determining-when-and-where-to-roll-.... It's still valid, but it don't cover Splunk SmartStore usage which have some other parameters to restrict lifecycle.

r. Ismo

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