Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Resegmenting chunks of data for efficient load balancing across indexers
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Application No.: US16703236Application Date: 2019-12-04
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Publication No.: US11016821B2Publication Date: 2021-05-25
- Inventor: Jag Kerai , Anish Shrigondekar , Mitchell Blank, Jr. , Hasan Alayli
- Applicant: SPLUNK INC.
- Applicant Address: US CA San Francisco
- Assignee: SPLUNK INC.
- Current Assignee: SPLUNK INC.
- Current Assignee Address: US CA San Francisco
- Main IPC: G06F9/50
- IPC: G06F9/50 ; G06F3/06

Abstract:
Resegmenting chunks of data for load balancing is disclosed. A plurality of first chunks of data is received. The plurality of first chunks of data includes one or more entries that include raw data produced by a component of an information technology environment and that reflects activity in the information technology environment. The plurality of first chunks of data is resegmented into a plurality of second chunks of data based on entry boundaries in at least some of the plurality of first chunks of data. A first subset of the plurality of second chunks of data is distributed to a first indexer of a set of indexers. An occurrence of a trigger event is determined, and in response to the trigger event, a second subset of the plurality of second chunks of data is distributed to a second indexer of the set of indexers.
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