Abstract: Systems and methods are disclosed for scalable bucket merging in a data intake and query system. Various components of a bucket manager can be used to monitor recently-created buckets of data in common storage that are associated with a particular tenant and a particular index, apply a comprehensive bucket merge policy to determine groups of buckets that qualify for merging, merge those group of buckets into merged buckets to be stored in the common storage, and update any information associated with the merged buckets and pre-merged buckets. These components may be shared across multiple tenants, and some of these components may be dynamically scalable based on need. This approach may also provide many additional benefits, including improved search performance from merged buckets, efficient resource utilization associated with discriminate merging, and redundancy in case of component failure.

Abstract: A data intake and query system can manage the search of large amounts of data using one or more processing nodes. When a new processing node is added or becomes available, the node coordinator can reassign duties from one or more processing nodes to the new processing node. The node coordinator can initially assign the new processing node one or more groups of data for backup purposes. At a later time, the node coordinator can reassign the new processing node to the one or more groups of data for searching purposes.

Abstract: Systems and methods are disclosed for scalable bucket merging in a data intake and query system. Various components of a bucket manager can be used to monitor recently-created buckets of data in common storage that are associated with a particular tenant and a particular index, apply a comprehensive bucket merge policy to determine groups of buckets that qualify for merging, merge those group of buckets into merged buckets to be stored in the common storage, and update any information associated with the merged buckets and pre-merged buckets. These components may be shared across multiple tenants, and some of these components may be dynamically scalable based on need. This approach may also provide many additional benefits, including improved search performance from merged buckets, efficient resource utilization associated with discriminate merging, and redundancy in case of component failure.

Abstract: Systems and methods are disclosed for scalable bucket merging in a data intake and query system. Various components of a bucket manager can be used to monitor recently-created buckets of data in common storage that are associated with a particular tenant and a particular index, apply a comprehensive bucket merge policy to determine groups of buckets that qualify for merging, merge those group of buckets into merged buckets to be stored in the common storage, and update any information associated with the merged buckets and pre-merged buckets. These components may be shared across multiple tenants, and some of these components may be dynamically scalable based on need. This approach may also provide many additional benefits, including improved search performance from merged buckets, efficient resource utilization associated with discriminate merging, and redundancy in case of component failure.