How licensing works

Splunk Enterprise licensing tracks the indexed data volume per day against a license stack or individual pools. To deep-dive into license groups, stacks, and pools, refer to the Splunk documentation: https://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/9.0.3/Admin/Groups,stacks,pools,andotherterminology. The contents of this documentation are covered in the next section, Installing, managing, and monitoring licenses.

In a distributed infrastructure, a dedicated Splunk Enterprise instance will be assigned a license manager role, which keeps track of the license usage of the whole deployment. The rest of the instances act as license peers reporting to the manager.

The license quota is measured every day, from midnight to midnight, which means it will get reset to the full quota for the next day’s processing, and it’s a continuous process that works in conjunction with the system clock of the manager. Splunk supports two types of indexes, called events...