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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 03, 2024
Filed:
Nov. 01, 2022
Systems and methods for updating a status indication in a system providing dynamic indexer discovery
Splunk Inc., San Francisco, CA (US);
Vishal Patel, San Francisco, CA (US);
Jagannath Kerai, Cupertino, CA (US);
Hasan Alayli, San Francisco, CA (US);
SPLUNK INC., San Francisco, CA (US);
Abstract
The present invention is related to a method for providing dynamic indexer discovery. The method comprises receiving, from an index manager, a status indication associated with a plurality of indexers, wherein each of the plurality of indexers indexes events of raw machine-generated data received from a plurality of data collectors. The method further comprises determining a weight associated with each of the plurality of indexers and selecting an indexer from the plurality of indexers. Subsequently, the method comprises allocating data to the indexer in accordance with a respective weight assigned to the indexer and transmitting the allocated data to the indexer.