search peer

noun

A Splunk instance that performs indexing in a distributed search environment. Search peers also fulfill search requests originating from the search head. Sometimes referred to as an "indexer node."

Related terms

For more information

In the Distributed Deployment Manual:

configuration

configuration file

event processing

character set encoding

segmentation

segment

timestamping

timestamp, timezone offset

default field extraction

host, source, source type, punct


archiving

retention time