US 12,079,255 B1
Systems and methods for updating a status indication in a system providing dynamic indexer discovery
Vishal Patel, San Francisco, CA (US); Jagannath Kerai, Cupertino, CA (US); and Hasan Alayli, San Francisco, CA (US)
Assigned to SPLUNK INC., San Francisco, CA (US)
Filed by SPLUNK INC., San Francisco, CA (US)
Filed on Nov. 1, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/978,681.
Application 17/978,681 is a continuation of application No. 16/353,886, filed on Mar. 14, 2019, granted, now 11,550,829.
Application 16/353,886 is a continuation of application No. 14/700,844, filed on Apr. 30, 2015, granted, now 10,268,755, issued on Apr. 23, 2019.
Int. Cl. G06F 17/00 (2019.01); G06F 16/17 (2019.01); G06F 16/31 (2019.01)
CPC G06F 16/328 (2019.01) [G06F 16/1734 (2019.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method comprising:
receiving a status message from an indexer associated with a set of indexers, wherein each indexer in the set of indexers indexes events of raw machine generated data that are received from a plurality of data collectors, and wherein an index manager tracks a respective status for each indexer in the set of indexers;
updating a status indication associated with the indexer based on the status message;
determining a time duration between a receipt of a prior status message and the status message; and
in response to determining that the time duration exceeds a predetermined threshold, removing the indexer from the set of indexers that index events of raw machine generated data from the plurality of data collectors.