We have set up a clustered Splunk enterprise environment, and we have recently seen multiple scheduled searches getting skipped, with the ratio being observed varying from 80% to 99%. Upon scrolling through the forum, we have observed that we can modify these values via limits.conf file. My question is to confirm whether changing the concurrency value or search allocation quota for scheduled searches is advised as a best practice, or would that have some repercussions in the long run? Also, what could be considered as a quick remedial action to mitigate this issue? ... View more

When we launch Splunk Home or Search page, there is this metadata that runs in real-time eating up our resources available at hand. |metadata type=sourcetypes | search totalcount>0 I have read other answers here in the forum that say it can be disabled by changing the config at ui-prefs.conf . My question is: What would be any repercussions of performing this tweak - is this search actually being used somewhere else? Actually, what is the purpose/benefit/importance of this search? ... View more

Could anyone please help me out with a detailed description of how to install forwarders on MSSQL Cluster/Windows? We have a Splunk Cloud instance. ... View more