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| metadata type=sources maxes out at 10000 - limits.conf setting?

parallaxed
Path Finder

For some reason this search maxes out at 10000 (i.e. only returns 10000 sources, there are more...), and I can't seem to find the related limit - is it hardcoded?

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gkanapathy
Splunk Employee
Splunk Employee

Yes, it is hard coded on 4.0.x. In 3.x, you can add a count=100000 parameter to increase the number of results returned.

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Stephen_Sorkin
Splunk Employee
Splunk Employee

It is tunable in 4.1.x in limits.conf.

Add to etc/system/local/limits.conf:

[metadata]
maxcount = *some larger number*

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Stephen_Sorkin
Splunk Employee
Splunk Employee

It is tunable in 4.1.x in limits.conf.

Add to etc/system/local/limits.conf:

[metadata]
maxcount = *some larger number*

gkanapathy
Splunk Employee
Splunk Employee

Yes, it is hard coded on 4.0.x. In 3.x, you can add a count=100000 parameter to increase the number of results returned.

parallaxed
Path Finder

Why is it hard coded? Is there an alternative to count sources that's as quick as using the metadata?

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