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The KV store forms its own cluster within a SHC. The maximum number of SHC members KV store will form is 50. The KV store cluster is a subset of the SHC members that are responsible for replicating and storing the KV store data. The KV store cluster can have up to 50 members, but only 20 of them can be active at any given time. The other members are standby members that can take over if an active member fails. The KV store cluster cannot have more than 50 members, nor can it have an unlimited number of members. The KV store cluster cannot have 25 or 100 members, because these numbers are not multiples of 5, which is the minimum replication factor for the KV store cluster

The Splunk Enterprise Security and Encryption documentation specifies that the primary mechanism for securing data in motion within a Splunk environment is to enable TLS/SSL encryption between forwarders and indexers. This ensures that log data transmitted from Universal Forwarders or Heavy Forwarders to Indexers is fully encrypted and protected from interception or tampering.

The correct configuration involves setting up signed SSL certificates on both forwarders and indexers:

On the forwarder, TLS settings are defined in outputs.conf, specifying parameters like sslCertPath, sslPassword, and sslRootCAPath.

On the indexer, TLS is enabled in inputs.conf and server.conf using the same shared CA for validation.

Splunk’s documentation explicitly states that this configuration protects data-in-transit between the collection (forwarder) and indexing (storage) tiers — which is the critical link where sensitive log data is most vulnerable.

Other communication channels (e.g., deployment server to clients or browser to Splunk Web) can also use encryption but do not secure the ingestion pipeline that handles the indexed data stream. Therefore, TLS should be implemented between Splunk forwarders and indexers.

References (Splunk Enterprise Documentation):

• Securing Data in Transit with SSL/TLS

• Configure Forwarder-to-Indexer Encryption Using SSL Certificates

• Server and Forwarder Authentication Setup Guide

• Splunk Enterprise Admin Manual – Security and Encryption Best Practices

 A multi-site indexer cluster can be configured by directly editing SPLUNK_HOME/etc/system/local/server.conf or running a splunk edit cluster-config command from the CLI. These methods allow the administrator to specify the site attribute for each indexer node and the site_replication_factor and site_search_factor for the cluster. Configuring a multi-site indexer cluster via Splunk Web or directly editing SPLUNK_HOME/etc/system/default/server.conf are not supported methods. For more information, see Configure the indexer cluster with server.conf in the Splunk documentation.

 The algorithm used to determine captaincy in a Splunk search head cluster is Raft distributed consensus. Raft is a consensus algorithm that is used to elect a leader among a group of nodes in a distributed system. In a Splunk search head cluster, Raft is used to elect a captain among the cluster members. The captain is the cluster member that is responsible for coordinating the search activities, replicating the configurations and apps, and pushing the knowledge bundles to the search peers. The captain is dynamically elected based on various criteria, such as CPU load, network latency, and search load. The captain can change over time, depending on the availability and performance of the cluster members. Rapt, Rift, and Round-robin are not valid algorithms for determining captaincy in a Splunk search head cluster