dispatch reaper metrics

[jplumsdaine22]

In 6.5 it looks like there is a new metric event that tracks the dispatch reaper. You can view it with

index=_internal  sourcetype=splunkd dispatch_dir_reaper_mean_ms 

Consistently the value for dispatch_dir_reaper_mean_ms is several orders of magnitude higher than dispatch_dir_reaper_max_ms, which is strange considereing the field names

Has anyone else seen this or know if it signifies anything?

[jplumsdaine22 · Accepted solution]

From the 6.5.3 release notes, it appears that this is a known issue:

2016-09-15 SPL-128845, SPL-131108, SPL-131106 Distributed Search: Deployment -- Time to Reap : Dispatch Directory ... max < average time