Is it safe to remove excess buckets?

[nawazns5038]

Hi,

I see some excess buckets in the bucket status tab in the indexer clustering page.

Is it safe to click remove button ? Does data become unavailable during the operation ?

Should the cluster be kept in the maintenance mode prior to the operation ?

Thanks

[somesoni2 · Accepted solution]

You sure can remove excess buckets without affecting cluster's operation. See this for more details and steps for remove excess buckets:

http://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/7.1.2/Indexer/Removeextrabucketcopies