Splunk® Enterprise

Workload Management

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Enable workload management

After you create your workload pools and workload rules, you must enable workload management. When you enable workload management, a series of health checks run in the background to validate your configuration. If these health checks fail, you cannot enable workload management and a failure message appears.

For more information on Linux configuration requirements, see Set up Linux for workload management.

You can enable workload management using Splunk Web, the CLI, or REST API.

Enable workload management in Splunk Web

  1. In Splunk Web, click Settings > Workload Management.
  2. Toggle the switch to Enabled.
    This applies any pending configuration changes and enables workload management.
    To disable workload management, toggle the switch to Disabled.

Enable workload management using the CLI

To enable or disable workload management, run the following CLI command:

./splunk <enable|disable> workload-management

Enable workload management using REST

You can enable or disable workload management using the REST API. For endpoint details, see workloads/config/enable or workloads/config/disable in the REST API Reference Manual.

Check workload management status

You can check the current status of workload management using the CLI or REST API. The output shows configuration details of all workload pools and rules, and whether workload management is supported and enabled on the instance. You can also view runtime information for in-progress searches in any pool.

Check workload management status using the CLI

Run the following CLI command:

./splunk show workload-management-status --verbose

Here is an example of the output from the command:

Workload Management Status:
	Enabled: 1
	Supported: 1
	Error:

Workload Category: ingest

		CPU Group: /sys/fs/cgroup/cpu/system.slice/Splunkd.service/ingest
		Memory Group: /sys/fs/cgroup/memory/system.slice/Splunkd.service/ingest
		CPU Weight: 25
		Memory Weight: 25
		Default Category Pool: pool_2
	pool_2:
		CPU Group: /sys/fs/cgroup/cpu/system.slice/Splunkd.service/ingest/pool_2
		Memory Group: /sys/fs/cgroup/memory/system.slice/Splunkd.service/ingest/pool_2
		CPU Weight: 100
		Memory Weight: 100

Workload Category: search

		CPU Group: /sys/fs/cgroup/cpu/system.slice/Splunkd.service/search
		Memory Group: /sys/fs/cgroup/memory/system.slice/Splunkd.service/search
		CPU Weight: 75
		Memory Weight: 75
		Default Category Pool: pool_1
	pool_1:
		CPU Group: /sys/fs/cgroup/cpu/system.slice/Splunkd.service/search/pool_1
		Memory Group: /sys/fs/cgroup/memory/system.slice/Splunkd.service/search/pool_1
		CPU Weight: 20
		Memory Weight: 20
	pool_3:
		CPU Group: /sys/fs/cgroup/cpu/system.slice/Splunkd.service/search/pool_3
		Memory Group: /sys/fs/cgroup/memory/system.slice/Splunkd.service/search/pool_3
		CPU Weight: 20
		Memory Weight: 20

Workload Category: misc

		CPU Group: /sys/fs/cgroup/cpu/system.slice/Splunkd.service/misc
		Memory Group: /sys/fs/cgroup/memory/system.slice/Splunkd.service/misc
		CPU Weight: 12
		Memory Weight: 12
		Default Category Pool: misc_pool
	misc_pool:
		CPU Group: /sys/fs/cgroup/cpu/system.slice/Splunkd.service/misc/misc_pool
		Memory Group: /sys/fs/cgroup/memory/system.slice/Splunkd.service/misc/misc_pool
		CPU Weight: 100
		Memory Weight: 100

Workload Rules:
		rule_1:
			Order: 1
			Predicate: app="search"
			Workload Pool: pool_1

		rule_2:
			Order: 2
			Predicate: app="search" AND (NOT index="_internal")
			Workload Pool: pool_3

Check workload management status using REST

To view workload management status information, send a GET request to:

workloads/status

For endpoint details, see workloads/status in the REST API Reference Manual.

Last modified on 17 October, 2020
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This documentation applies to the following versions of Splunk® Enterprise: 8.0.0, 8.0.1, 8.0.2, 8.0.3, 8.0.4, 8.0.5, 8.0.6, 8.0.7, 8.0.8, 8.0.9, 8.0.10


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