Splunk Search

Concurrent searches

mundus
Path Finder

It seems that non-admin users are only able to have three searches running simultaneously. Is there a way to increase this limit?

Thx.

Craig

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gkanapathy
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Splunk Employee

Yes. These limits are configured for each role in the authorize.conf configuration file on each search head.

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