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I'm trying to run a metadata search on type=hosts and am being capped in the UI to 10,000 results. I've already increased the limits.conf setting per the following answers post:

http://answers.splunk.com/questions/3197/metadata-typesources-maxes-out-at-10000-limits-conf-setting

How can I get Splunk to return a complete listing?

asked 13 Aug '10, 17:57

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Hmm, so I had updated the limits.conf setting on the search head. Does this change need to occur at the indexers themselves?

(13 Aug '10, 19:04) the_wolverine ♦
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limits.conf isn't propagated from the search head, so you should set on all servers.

(13 Aug '10, 23:59) Stephen Sorkin ♦

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What version of Splunk are you running? Please provide a diag file with your answer.

The setting described works in 4.1.x, but not in 4.0.x.


Update:

Seems this setting doesn't work as described in 4.1.3. I have a 4.1.3 search head, and five 4.1.3 indexers. All of them have the default setting in limits.conf, which is 100,000 (not 10,000):

[metadata]
# the most metadata results to fetch from each indexer.
maxcount = 100000

However, running

| metadata type=sources

limits me to 10,000 results, and

| metadata type=sources | stats count

gives me 10,000.

You can keep your diag.

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answered 13 Aug '10, 18:07

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edited 18 Aug '10, 18:07

I'm using version 4.1.2 and it isn't working. There was a diag submitted with one of my recent cases. Please look at all my cases and let me know if you don't see it. kthxbai.

(13 Aug '10, 19:03) the_wolverine ♦

All of your diags are unreadable. Please resubmit all of them. Thank you.

(16 Aug '10, 01:05) gkanapathy ♦
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