Splunk Search

Hello every one, while I am searching on splunk , I am getting the following error. Search process did not exit cleanly, exit_code=255, description="exited with code 255". Please look in search.log for this peer in the Job Inspector for more info.

jsuryaprakash
Path Finder

Our environment is having 3 Sh and 4 indexers . I am getting following error very frequently. I followed suggestions in from this portal but it didn't helped me. Currently we are running 6.5.2 version.

Search process did not exit cleanly, exit_code=255, description="exited with code 255". Please look in search.log for this peer in the Job Inspector for more info.

Your help is appreciated.

Thanks

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LordLeet
Path Finder

Hello jsuryaprakash,

I'm facing a similar issue, did you manage to fix it?

Regards

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