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What happen when an index is deleted?

edrivera3
Builder

Hi

I have multiple index. If I delete an index, would the data in it would be erase completely from Splunk?

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lguinn2
Legend

Yes, the data would be completely erased. The disk space would become available.

Data that was being sent to that index would not be indexed. There is no fall-back or default. If inputs.conf references an index that doesn't exist, the data is simply not indexed.

Reports and dashboards that referred to that index would no longer work.

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skoelpin
SplunkTrust
SplunkTrust

Think of an index as a folder. If you delete a folder then the data within that folder is gone too

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lguinn2
Legend

Yes, the data would be completely erased. The disk space would become available.

Data that was being sent to that index would not be indexed. There is no fall-back or default. If inputs.conf references an index that doesn't exist, the data is simply not indexed.

Reports and dashboards that referred to that index would no longer work.

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