The DMC shows us the following -
It shows the connected forwarders to the four indexers, the yellow line is actually two indexers one on top of the other.
How can we figure out which two hundred or so forwarders are not connected to the two newer indexers (the blue and purple) at the bottom of the chart?
Jeff suggested -
-- You should be able to run a search on _internal
for the last 24 hours looking for host whose count of splunk_server != 4
.
I know this isn't what you're asking, but having hundreds of forwarders going directly to your indexers is against best practice. The Heavy Forwarder role should be intercepting these messages from the UFs and such and then forwarding them to the indexers.
This also allows you to do some preprocessing with transforms and props that would otherwise take resources away from your indexers.