Patent ID: 11934256
Assignee: SPLUNK INC.
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G  H | IPC G  H

Claim 8:
9. The computer-implemented method of claim 1, wherein the received latency data indicates a first latency state of a first of the second instances of the data intake and query system, the first latency state having been determined by:
providing to the first of the second instances a tracking log file that includes a locally generated tracking event having a time stamp associated with the generation of the tracking event, the tracking log file being provided to the first of the second instances immediately upstream, relative to event data flow to the first of the second instances, from one or more input queues located at an event data intake side of the first of the second instances;
determining when or if the first of the one or more second instances processed the tracking event; and
ascertaining a latency state of the first of the second instances by determining a time difference between the time stamp and when the tracking event was processed by the first of the second instances.