Answer by warren for How do we get/extract log data from splunk

You need to investigate the following:

  • index retention (and for Smart Store)
  • storage availability
    • if you have an index set for 500G or 1 year, but you store 50G per day, you’ll rotate at 10 days
    • if you hsve an index set for 500G or 1 year, but only have 400G available storage, it will rotate sooner

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