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Size of files in tsidxstats?

lhausman
New Member

It looks like Splunk for Palo Alto Networks is using tscollect commands to create dashboards, and the files associated with these commands are stored in /opt/splunk/var/lib/splunk/tsidxstats. They seem to be growing uncontrollably and filling our server. (Hot / cold buckets are configured on a separate set of filesystems, with tsidx files, but these appear to be something different.)

  • Am I right about the origin of these files?
  • Is there a way to limit the growth of these files?
  • Can these files be manually removed, say, with a cron job that removes anything more than X months old? If so, how long should they be kept?
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dart
Splunk Employee
Splunk Employee

Hi,

You're correct about the file origin.

If you grab the Splunk App for Netapp it includes SA-Utils, which contains handling for tsidx retention. configurable with tsidx_retention.conf.

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