Scheduling best practices
No matter how advanced and well-scaled your Splunk infrastructure is, if all scheduled searches and reports are running at the same time, the system will start experiencing issues. Typically you will receive a Splunk message saying that you have reached the limit of concurrent or historical searches. Suffice to say that there are only a certain number of searches that can be run on CPU core for each Splunk instance. The very first issue a beginner Splunk admin faces is how to limit the number of concurrent searches running at the same time. One way to fix this is to throw more servers into the Splunk cluster, but that is not the efficient way.
The trick to establishing a robust system is to properly stagger and budget ...
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