How do check the number of events of an index?

[perlish]

For example, I have added some other indexes, I want to know that whether the events have been sent into the corresponding index ?
And I also want to know that the NUMBER of events of that index?

[gkanapathy · Accepted solution]

The easiest way is probably using eventcount:

| eventcount index=myindex

http://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/5.0.3/SearchReference/Eventcount

Note that dbinspect is good, but will not work in a distributed cluster, thought it can be run independently on each indexer.

[Ayn]

Use dbinspect: http://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/5.0.3/SearchReference/Dbinspect

[martin_mueller]

Depending on your specific needs, you either need metadata or dbinspect.

http://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/latest/SearchReference/metadata
http://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/latest/SearchReference/dbinspect