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Find index retention stats

shankern
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Hi,
I would like to get the following stats in a distributed index setup:

index name, current size of index (sum all indexers), maximum size/quota allocated, first events timestamp, last events timestamp, total retention time

Thanks
Shanker

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somesoni2
Revered Legend

Try this

| rest /services/data/indexes | table  title splunk_server currentDBSizeMB frozenTimePeriodInSecs maxTime minTime totalEventCount

Details of returned values can be found here.
http://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/6.0.2/RESTAPI/RESTindex

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somesoni2
Revered Legend

Try this

| rest /services/data/indexes | table  title splunk_server currentDBSizeMB frozenTimePeriodInSecs maxTime minTime totalEventCount

Details of returned values can be found here.
http://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/6.0.2/RESTAPI/RESTindex

shankern
Explorer

From the result the minTime values seems inaccurate. My splunk setup is only 1 month old but the minTime is giving timestamps from year 2011, 2012 etc. Any idea why?
Thanks
Shanker

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shankern
Explorer

Thanks 🙂 Gives me exactly what I wanted.

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