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Searches delayed in search head captain

btshivanand
Path Finder

Hi all,

We have 3 search heads are in cluster. serach head 1 is captain.Recently we upgraded to 7.2.3 to 8.0.3.after the upgrade i see that my search captain is in red and it showing search delayed  error.none of the users are complained for any thing.But not sure why we see search head captain is in red and saying searches delayed.I am sure something is wrong , can some one please help with this.

We tried restarting the and resync option.

 

 

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btshivanand
Path Finder

Thanks for the reply. i had researched alot and felt like none of the answers were helping me.still we have this error but its not harming anything.if you could help me in that it will be great. 

Are you asking me to shift captain to other search head.i have tried this captain remains in red always.

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Dias
Explorer

Hi, we have the same problem in our topology. Did you find the solution for this answer? Your question only thing in splunk community.

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TRex
SplunkTrust
SplunkTrust

Hello!
Did you find a solution to this? We just experienced something similar and had to manually remove/change the captain (mutiny style) in order to fix the slowness.

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