Hi all, we are planing to update to version 9.0.1. and I was wondering if the kv store migration from mmap v1 to WiredTiger  obligatory is? The first sentence from the Splunk documentatiosn says "Splunk Enterprise versions 9.0 and higher require the WiredTiger storage engine and server version 4.2" but I was wondering if something will go wrong if we don't perform the kv store migration before the Splunk upgrade or if we don't perform the migration at all.   Thanks! ... View more

Hi all, I keep getting a message that the current bundle directory contains a large lookup file and the specified file is a delta under /opt/splunk/var/run. I read that the max_memtable_bytes determines the maximum size of lookups. But how about the delta? What delta size is too large? Or should I rather be looking at the largest lookups in the bundle to resolve the problem? Do you have any tipps on how to resolve this?Thanks.     ... View more

hi all, I would like to access DS via Winscp so I can look at and donwload some apps. The problem is that Splunk is installed as and owned by splunk user. When I use Putty, I use "sudo su - splunk" and am able to make changes to any directories under /opt/splunk. Can someone give me a hint what I need to change for Winscp to be able to use it and access the directories as I am currently getting "permission denied" messages.  Thanks! ... View more

hi all, I am considering updating our index retention policy. However, I am not sure how to choose the maximum possible allocated space. We have a few indexes and one of them takes about half of the total index volume. We would like to keep the data for as long as possible, however have limited storage. For simplicity, let's say we have 1 TB storage and a single instance, 10 indexes. As far as I understood, it would be best to choose MaxTotalDataSizeMB to set the max MB per index. However, I can't divide the space of 1TB per index as only some of the space can be taken up by indexed data. So my questions are: 1) How should I choose what the MaxTotalDataSizeMB per index is? 2) How can I use to the maximum server storage without getting Splunk problems?  3) Is it reasonable to calculate the total index storage by looking at the total storage outside of  /opt/splunk/var/lib directory and then deciding how much storage can be allocated to indexes? What approach do you recommend?  4) What approach would you recommend in my case? Is it reasonable to keep data for as long as possible and are there reasons for avoiding this approach? ... View more