May 2013
Beginner to intermediate
376 pages
11h 3m
English
CHAPTER 16
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Scaling and High Availability
All of the examples and projects in the book so far have been based on using a single instance of Splunk, which acts as an indexer and searcher. In this chapter, we will review how to scale Splunk by adding more servers to handle the indexing and search components. You will also learn the basic principles of clustering, which increases the resiliency of Splunk by handling automatic failover of indexers. We will set up a sample cluster to illustrate the basic steps of this process.
Scaling Splunk
The functionality of Splunk can be roughly broken down into three basic areas: