https://community.splunk.com/t5/Splunk-Cloud-Platform/SplunkUF-monitoring-symlinks/m-p/610670#M1732 <P>Last night I installed the UF onto a system hosting some docker containers. I wanted to grab the log files without modifying the existing containers config so I created symlinks to the container logs (/var/lib/docker/containers/&lt;name&gt;) in /var/log.&nbsp; Then set the stanzas in inputs.conf to look at those symlinks. Bounced the app and waited about half an hour, nothing.&nbsp;</P><P>I was searching and found references to followSymlinks, so I added that to each stanza as 'true'. It's been ~7 hours and nothing yet.</P><P>What did I do wrong here?</P> Wed, 24 Aug 2022 12:36:30 GMT skeer007 2022-08-24T12:36:30Z https://community.splunk.com/t5/Splunk-Cloud-Platform/SplunkUF-monitoring-symlinks/m-p/610670#M1732 <P>Last night I installed the UF onto a system hosting some docker containers. I wanted to grab the log files without modifying the existing containers config so I created symlinks to the container logs (/var/lib/docker/containers/&lt;name&gt;) in /var/log.&nbsp; Then set the stanzas in inputs.conf to look at those symlinks. Bounced the app and waited about half an hour, nothing.&nbsp;</P><P>I was searching and found references to followSymlinks, so I added that to each stanza as 'true'. It's been ~7 hours and nothing yet.</P><P>What did I do wrong here?</P> Wed, 24 Aug 2022 12:36:30 GMT https://community.splunk.com/t5/Splunk-Cloud-Platform/SplunkUF-monitoring-symlinks/m-p/610670#M1732 skeer007 2022-08-24T12:36:30Z