What do I do with buckets?
Buckets are portions of Splunk indexes. This article points you to a few resources for troubleshooting problems with buckets.
Might I be having issues with bucket rotation?
An unsuitable bucket rotation and retention policy can lead to:
- old events being deleted before they reach frozen buckets,
- hot and warm buckets filling up, stopping Splunk,
- old events not being archived correctly and thus still searchable when they shouldn't be, and
- poor searching or indexing performance.
Here's a Community Wiki article about bucket rotation and retention with specific recommendations and examples.
Recover metadata for a corrupt Splunk index directory
Contact Splunk Support for direction before using this command.
The recover-metadata
command recovers missing or corrupt metadata associated with any Splunk index directory, sometimes also referred to as a bucket.
If your Splunk instance will not start, a possible cause is that one or more of your index buckets is corrupt in some way. Contact Support; they will help you determine if this is indeed the case and if so, which bucket(s) are affected. Then, run this command:
$SPLUNK_HOME/bin/splunk cmd recover-metadata <full path to the exact index directory/bucket>
Splunk returns a success or failure message.
Recovering and rebuilding buckets
Managing Indexers and Clusters has a thorough explanation of buckets. See the Troubleshoot indexers and clusters of indexers chapter for help troubleshooting bucket problems, like crash recovery, rebuilding buckets, bucket replication issues, and configuration bundle issues.
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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
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