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Why am I getting a warning about disk space when minFreeSpace is 5000 and there's 83GB available?

gregbo
Communicator

The disk usage is at 17% and inode usage is at 1%. The error message from Splunk Web says minFreeSpace is 5000 and free space is 85711:

03-03-2020 16:16:48.266 +0000 WARN DiskMon - MinFreeSpace=5000. The diskspace remaining=85711 is less than 2 x minFreeSpace

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gwcon
Path Finder

This could be from your index max size ? Not sure though, very new to splunk but that would make sense.

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gwcon
Path Finder

This could be from your index max size ? Not sure though, very new to splunk but that would make sense.

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sumanssah
Communicator

check your indexes.conf & server.conf for data roll

Check this formula
LocalDiskSpace = minFreeSpace + (maxHotBuckets * maxDataSize) + (maxWarmDBCount * maxDataSize)

Refer below-mentioned link for more details

https://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/7.3.0/Indexer/Configureindexstorage
https://www.splunk.com/en_us/blog/tips-and-tricks/managing-index-sizes-in-splunk.html

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