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What will break if I set coldPath to /dev/null?

richgalloway
SplunkTrust
SplunkTrust

I've been asked to size a Splunk installation with only 30 days of hot/warm data - no cold data. I've never heard of this before. I could probably set coldPath=/dev/null so warm data is deleted instead of being moved to cold, but can Splunk handle that?

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twinspop
Influencer

Just set maxTotalDataSizeMB and homePath.maxDataSizeMB to the same amount. No need for shenanigans with the locations.

[someindex]
maxTotalDataSizeMB     = 100000
homePath.maxDataSizeMB = 100000
frozenTimePeriodInSecs = 2592000
  • edit - added your 30 day limit
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