savedsearch vs macros for the amount of jobs that are produced in Splunk

[robertlynch2020]

Hi

I have a question about using savedsearch vs macros for the amount of jobs that are produced in Splunk. I have a situation where we must run alerts every 1 minutes looking for issues, the SPL will call multiple other saved searches and then can call more saved searches etc... We have noticed that this sends the number of jobs very high in Splunk. The question is if we used macros and not saved searches would the number of jobs decrease?

[somesoni2 · Accepted solution]

Assuming the macros are also expanding to a SPL that is used as subsearch, the number of jobs created would be same.  Check if you can merge multiple searches together if they share same base search.