Splunk Search

search problem

aalaa
Path Finder

Hello ,

I'm getting the following error in the Search head. How do I troubleshoot?

Search process did not exit cleanly, exit_code=-1, description="exited with code -1". Please look in search.log for this peer in the Job Inspector for more info.

Any help please ?

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woodcock
Esteemed Legend

Go to Settings -> Licensing and it should clearly tell you that you have either an expired/invalid license or too many license violations and give you some options on how to proceed.

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arjunpkishore5
Motivator

Searches are typically blocked when you have license violations. Have you exceeded license usage by any chance?

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to4kawa
Ultra Champion

what's your query?

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aalaa
Path Finder

All the searchs are blocked !
in my distributed environment, when I execute a search index=_internal or any other search from the search head, I don't get any results back. When I log into an indexer directly and perform the same search, the expected results are returned. I can see from the "Indexes" pages that there are definitely events in the _internal index on each indexer, but I don't seem to be able to access them from the search head.

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wmyersas
Builder

sounds like a permissions or license issue

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to4kawa
Ultra Champion
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