Hi to everyone
I have a design, with four Splunk instances (two search head, and two indexers). I want an "indexer cluster" (for replication and fault tolerance), and a "search head cluster" (for search efficiency). I'll send only syslog to indexers (no forwarder).
I need two searchable data copies and I have some questions:
1.- Do I need more Splunk instances?
2.- Do I need to send syslog to only one indexer, or the same syslog to two indexers?
3.- If I send data to only one indexer, with replication, will I have the same data in two indexers?
4.- If I send same data to two indexers, with replication, will I have data copies twice, in two indexers?
5.- If one indexer is down, will the other one be enough for service continuity?
6.- If I have a traffic balancer, only for sending syslog data, can I send data to any indexer, do I need any special consideration?
Any help, I'll be very grateful
Thanks you
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