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Why am receiving a free license violation after upgrade to 6.1.3 and have never gone above 200MB/day?

sazv
New Member

I just upgraded to 6.1.3, and now I am receiving a license violation. Looking at the past 30 days, I have never gone above 200MB/day, and only once touched 30% of daily license quota. I have one pool warning and one pool violation, with a "correct by midnight" message. Today's percentage of license quota sits at slightly over 10% as I type.

Any ideas?

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grijhwani
Motivator

One problem that I faced when first using the free licence was that Splunk was indexing (and more to the point re-indexing after rotation) its own log files. This meant that there was growing input day-on-day. When using an Enterprise licence this problem never becomes apparent, because the Splunk logs are a tiny drop in the ocean, but when using the free licence it can take a significant bite out of the available throughput.

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jsundberg_splun
Splunk Employee
Splunk Employee

Splunk's internal logs do not count against the license (free or Enterprise).

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sazv
New Member

Very strange. Today the license violation was downgraded to a warning, and everything is otherwise working.

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