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Is the checkpointInterval attribute configurable?

rbal_splunk
Splunk Employee
Splunk Employee

We have thousands of Universal Forwarders (UF) in a large virtual desktop environment where we need to minimize the footprint and particularly the I/O as much as possible.

Question is for WinEventLog configuration in Splunk 6.4.1 UF on Windows 7 x64 use a 60 second checkpointInterval.

For example:

[WinEventLog://Security]
checkpointInterval = 5
evt_resolve_ad_obj = 0
disabled = 0

We believe that for this particular input there's no need to checkpoint every 5 seconds, so hoping to modify this interval to reduce the disk writes to be like below but Splunk is not taking into account the new value ( checkpointInterval = 60 )

[WinEventLog://Security]
checkpointInterval = 60
evt_resolve_ad_obj = 0
disabled = 0
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rbal_splunk
Splunk Employee
Splunk Employee

Currently attribute checkpointInterval is not configurable in Splunk and there is open BUg# SPL-128223:::How to change checkpoint interval for modular inputs. This bux is expected to be fixed in next release i.e 6.4.5 and 6.5.2.

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rbal_splunk
Splunk Employee
Splunk Employee

Currently attribute checkpointInterval is not configurable in Splunk and there is open BUg# SPL-128223:::How to change checkpoint interval for modular inputs. This bux is expected to be fixed in next release i.e 6.4.5 and 6.5.2.

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