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Advanced Splunk

You're reading from   Advanced Splunk Master the art of getting the maximum out of your machine data using Splunk

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jun 2016
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ISBN-13 9781785884351
Length 348 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Ashish Kumar Tulsiram Yadav Ashish Kumar Tulsiram Yadav
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Preface 1. What's New in Splunk 6.3? FREE CHAPTER 2. Developing an Application on Splunk 3. On-boarding Data in Splunk 4. Data Analytics 5. Advanced Data Analytics 6. Visualization 7. Advanced Visualization 8. Dashboard Customization 9. Advanced Dashboard Customization 10. Tweaking Splunk 11. Enterprise Integration with Splunk 12. What Next? Splunk 6.4 Index

Indexer and search head enhancement

Splunk when deployed in a clustered and distributed environment is now introduced with various enhancements in Splunk 6.4 for higher efficiency and fault tolerance.

The following are the enhancements introduced in Splunk 6.4:

  • The index now supports replication of data model and report acceleration summaries. Until Splunk 6.3, if the index failed, the data model and report acceleration summaries were required to be regenerated. In Splunk 6.4, depending on the replication factor, the data model and report acceleration will also be replicated to survive failures.
  • In case of overheads or nonperformance of any indexer, the index can be quarantined. This feature restricts any new searches using this indexer, whereas any running searches will continue till the index search gets completed.
  • The search head now supports replication of the search peer. This feature enables us to add any nonclustered indexers to a search head cluster. Search head enhancement in Splunk...
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