Splunk Enterprise

Need help please Reg. missing indexes. What happened to them, were they deleted or corrupted or even broken. Thx

SamHTexas
Builder

Am getting an error by the cluster master under messages. Indexes missing. Need to learn how many are missing and what happened to them? If deleted by whom? Thanks a million in advance

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richgalloway
SplunkTrust
SplunkTrust

Please share the exact text of the error messages.

Sometimes, the "missing index" message appears when someone adds an input to a forwarder and that input specifies an index name that doesn't exist.  Users and system admins should be told not to mess with Splunk Universal Forwarders without consulting a Splunk Admin (you) first.

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