Currently we believe our system is configured to retain logs for the approximate 5.9 years but when we do searches we can only go back approximately 8 moths which appears to drop off to 8 months every week. Here is the configuration;
index specific defaults
maxDataSize = auto
maxWarmDBCount = 300
frozenTimePeriodInSecs = 188697600 (2,184 DAYS)
rotatePeriodInSecs = 60
coldToFrozenScript =
coldToFrozenDir =
compressRawdata = true
maxTotalDataSizeMB = 500000
[history]
homePath = $SPLUNK_DB/historydb/db
coldPath = $SPLUNK_DB/historydb/colddb
thawedPath = $SPLUNK_DB/historydb/thaweddb
tstatsHomePath = volume:_splunk_summaries/historydb/datamodel_summary
maxDataSize = 10
frozenTimePeriodInSecs = 604800 (7 DAYS)
[summary]
homePath = $SPLUNK_DB/summarydb/db
coldPath = $SPLUNK_DB/summarydb/colddb
thawedPath = $SPLUNK_DB/summarydb/thaweddb
tstatsHomePath = volume:_splunk_summaries/summarydb/datamodel_summary
[_internal]
homePath = $SPLUNK_DB/_internaldb/db
coldPath = $SPLUNK_DB/_internaldb/colddb
thawedPath = $SPLUNK_DB/_internaldb/thaweddb
tstatsHomePath = volume:_splunk_summaries/_internaldb/datamodel_summary
maxDataSize = 1000
maxHotSpanSecs = 432000
frozenTimePeriodInSecs = 2592000 (3 DAYS)
[_audit]
homePath = $SPLUNK_DB/audit/db
coldPath = $SPLUNK_DB/audit/colddb
thawedPath = $SPLUNK_DB/audit/thaweddb
tstatsHomePath = volume:_splunk_summaries/audit/datamodel_summary
[_thefishbucket]
homePath = $SPLUNK_DB/fishbucket/db
coldPath = $SPLUNK_DB/fishbucket/colddb
thawedPath = $SPLUNK_DB/fishbucket/thaweddb
tstatsHomePath = volume:_splunk_summaries/fishbucket/datamodel_summary
maxDataSize = 500
frozenTimePeriodInSecs = 2419200 (28 DAYS)
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