Understanding license warnings and violations
Understanding license limitations and their impact on the Splunk Enterprise platform is very important if system administrators want to maintain the continuity of their platform. The license types, whether purchased from Splunk or free, enforce limits, except the infrastructure license, which counts the number of vCPUs and doesn’t enforce license violation limitations. The rest of the license types enforce limits on data volume or indexed data volume per day.
If a license exceeds the allowed data volume per day, Splunk Enterprise will raise a license warning. When the number of warnings exceeds a certain threshold, it is called a license violation. The thresholds differ for every license type. A license violation disables the important features of Splunk Enterprise.
License warnings appear in Splunk web administrative messages. They persist for a number of days in order for system administrators to resolve them. License usage...
