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dbx query timeout

aaronkorn
Splunk Employee
Splunk Employee

Is there a flag in the dbx app that times out a query if it exceeds a certain time? We have an SLA that our queries can only run for 5 seconds each and after that they should time out.

VMDX
Engager

I don't think there is - we are considering an approach where we monitor all search jobs on the server side via ps and kill anything running longer than our timeout:

http://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/latest/Knowledge/ManagejobsfromtheOS

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