Splunk Enterprise

app and limits.conf

human96
Communicator

I want to control the number of concurrent user searches on an app-by-app basis.

I think it is possible to control the number of concurrent executions on a role-by-role basis, but is it possible to control on an app-by-app basis?

If control is possible on an app-by-app basis, please tell me how to control it.

(I think it is feasible by distributing limits.conf (base_max_searches) under App.)

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tshah-splunk
Splunk Employee
Splunk Employee

Concurrent searches can be controlled using base_max_searches and max_searches_per_cpu. But those are global settings only as mentioned by @isoutamo It would be better to restrict the users based on roles and apply the limits globally. Creating roles based on apps can become a complex job for managing roles, current and future users, current and future apps as well. 

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isoutamo
SplunkTrust
SplunkTrust

Hi

Quite many attribute on limits.conf are global not local for app. Also this is global. At least I don’t know any easy way to do it. Basically you could create app based roles which have this value, but if user has many roles then he/she will get the highest value for all apps.

r. Ismo 

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