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Rest command for Index Size

rashi83
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Hi , I am using the below REST command to create 30+ indexes. But they are getting created with default size as 500 GB.
How can I pass argument to restrict the total index size as 5GB?

curl -k -u admin:pass https://localhost:8089/services/data/indexes \
-d name=mymetricsindex \
-d datatype=metric

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uagrawal_splunk
Splunk Employee
Splunk Employee

The below command will work.
curl -k -u admin:pass https://localhost:8089/services/data/indexes \
-d name=mymetricsindex \
-d datatype=metric \
-d maxTotalDataSizeMB=5120

For more attributes refer this: https://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/8.0.0/Indexer/Configureindexstorage

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