What is the purpose of setting up alerts in the Monitoring Console for an indexer cluster?

To generate weekly reports on cluster performance for management

To proactively notify administrators when a metric crosses a predefined threshold, such as a peer going down

To automatically restart any peer that fails

To replace the need for manual dashboard review

An administrator is investigating a cluster issue where the Monitoring Console shows 'Replication Lag' is high for one peer, but all other peers have low lag. What is the most likely cause?

The search factor is set too high, causing the peer to be overloaded with search requests.

The peer has a slow network connection to the cluster master, delaying bucket transfers.

The cluster master is overloaded, causing all peers to have high lag.

The peer is down, so it cannot receive any buckets.

Why is monitoring 'search head connectivity' important in an indexer cluster environment?

To ensure that search heads can reach the cluster master and peers to execute searches across the cluster

To confirm that search heads are running the same version of Splunk as the peers

To verify that search heads are receiving data from forwarders

To check that search heads have enough disk space for their own indexes

A cluster administrator is troubleshooting a problem where the Monitoring Console shows that all peers are up, but the 'Search Factor Violations' metric is non-zero. What is the most likely cause?

The cluster master is down, so the cluster cannot process searches.

Some buckets have not yet been made searchable, even though they are replicated.

The search heads are not connected to the cluster, so searches are failing.

The replication factor is set too low, causing data loss.

You notice that 'Replication Lag' is high for several peers in the Monitoring Console. Which dashboard would you use to investigate the root cause of this replication issue?

The 'Search Factor' dashboard, to see if searchable copies are affected

The 'Peer Status' dashboard, to see if peers are down

The 'Search Head Connectivity' dashboard, to check if search heads are causing the issue

The 'Replication Lag' dashboard, which shows detailed lag metrics and can help identify if the issue is widespread or isolated

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