Splunk® Enterprise

Capacity Planning Manual

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How saved searches / reports affect Splunk Enterprise performance

On a reference indexer, a saved search or report consumes about 1 CPU core and a specified amount of memory while it executes. It behaves like an ad-hoc search. A saved search also increases the amount of disk I/O temporarily as the disk subsystem looks through the indexes to fetch data.

Each additional saved search that executes at the same time consumes an additional CPU core. This consumption is separate from CPU usage from the operating system and Splunk Enterprise indexing and storage processes.

If more saved searches execute than can be accepted for processing, they wait in a queue until they can be serviced. Splunk Enterprise also warns you when the system reaches the maximum number of queued saved searches. When searches queue up, search results return more slowly.

Adding search heads provides additional CPU cores to run more concurrent searches. Adding indexers helps scale with the increased search load and concurrency that comes from adding search heads. Adding RAM to your existing machines helps with concurrent searches but does not give you additional search capacity.

Last modified on 25 October, 2014
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This documentation applies to the following versions of Splunk® Enterprise: 7.0.0, 7.0.1, 7.0.2, 7.0.3, 7.0.4, 7.0.5, 7.0.6, 7.0.7, 7.0.8, 7.0.9, 7.0.10, 7.0.11, 7.0.13, 7.1.0, 7.1.1, 7.1.2, 7.1.3, 7.1.4, 7.1.5, 7.1.6, 7.1.7, 7.1.8, 7.1.9, 7.1.10, 7.2.0, 7.2.1, 7.2.2, 7.2.3, 7.2.4, 7.2.5, 7.2.6, 7.2.7, 7.2.8, 7.2.9, 7.2.10, 7.3.0, 7.3.1, 7.3.2, 7.3.3, 7.3.4, 7.3.5, 7.3.6, 7.3.7, 7.3.8, 7.3.9, 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, 8.1.0, 8.1.1, 8.1.2, 8.1.3, 8.1.4, 8.1.5, 8.1.6, 8.1.7, 8.1.8, 8.1.9, 8.1.10, 8.1.11, 8.1.12, 8.1.13, 8.1.14, 8.2.0, 8.2.1, 8.2.2, 8.2.3, 8.2.4, 8.2.5, 8.2.6, 8.2.7, 8.2.8, 8.2.9, 8.2.10, 8.2.11, 8.2.12, 9.0.0, 9.0.1, 9.0.2, 9.0.3, 9.0.4, 9.0.5, 9.0.6, 9.0.7, 9.0.8, 9.0.9, 9.0.10, 9.1.0, 9.1.1, 9.1.2, 9.1.3, 9.1.4, 9.1.5, 9.1.6, 9.2.0, 9.2.1, 9.2.2, 9.2.3, 9.3.0, 9.3.1


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