Splunk Enterprise

Kept receiving error message at indexer

Nicholas_Key
Splunk Employee
Splunk Employee

Hi all,

I'm trying to forward my summarized events from an indexer (machine1) to multiple indexers (machine2 and machine 3) and I'm seeing this error message at machine2 and machine3:

received event for unconfigured/disabled index='summary_forwarders' with source='source::All forwarders - regenerator summary index' host='host::machine1' sourcetype='sourcetype::stash'

I'm really sure that I'm not using summary_forwarders in any way.

Any idea why this happens?

Tags (1)
0 Karma

Stephen_Sorkin
Splunk Employee
Splunk Employee

You have a summary index search configured on machine1 that puts data into the index summary_forwarders that doesn't exist on machine2 or machine3. This is probably from the beta SplunkDeploymentMonitor app. Is it installed only on machine1?

Got questions? Get answers!

Join the Splunk Community Slack to learn, troubleshoot, and make connections with fellow Splunk practitioners in real time!

Meet up IRL or virtually!

Join Splunk User Groups to connect and learn in-person by region or remotely by topic or industry.

Get Updates on the Splunk Community!

Agent Mode Engaged! Enchaining Agentic Operations with Splunk AI Assistant 2.0

    Are you ready to transform how your team handles complex data requests? We invite you to our upcoming ...

Announcing Modern Navigation: A New Era of Splunk User Experience

We are excited to introduce the Modern Navigation feature in the Splunk Platform, available to both cloud and ...

Modernize your Splunk Apps – Introducing Python 3.13 in Splunk

We are excited to announce that the upcoming releases of Splunk Enterprise 10.2.x and Splunk Cloud Platform ...