Monitoring Splunk

what is limit of cronjob schedule ?

gurveer_singh88
New Member

I have one requirement where I have to schedule more than 1000 cronjobs on different time period and system will execute individual cronjob in each 10 minutes.

I just want to know, is there any limit in in Splunk Enterprise to save a particular number of cronjobs like 100, 200 or something?

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richgalloway
SplunkTrust
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There is no limit to the number of jobs that can be scheduled. There is, however, a limit to the number of jobs that can be executed. Each cron job requires a CPU core to run. Since you have 1000 jobs running every 10 minutes, that's roughly 100 jobs per minute. That means you need at least 100 cores in your Splunk server. Fewer cores means some jobs will have to wait for others to complete and may be skipped.

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Yasaswy
Contributor

hi,

I think this might have more to do with your system resources than with Splunk. Typically each of your saved search executing at the same time will consume a CPU core. Once your CPUs are maxed your searches will queue up and impact the performance.

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gurveer_singh88
New Member

Very true Yasaswy, It will impact system performance. Definitely it requires good amount of computing power. All i want to know, will splunk allow me to add these many number of jobs ?

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richgalloway
SplunkTrust
SplunkTrust

Yes, Splunk will allow you to add that many jobs.

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gurveer_singh88
New Member

Thanks Rich and Yasaswy for reply. I will be more careful while sizing.

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