https://community.splunk.com/t5/Deployment-Architecture/Publishing-data-from-my-localhost-to-UDP-port/m-p/442670#M15594 <P>I have opened a UDP port in splunk system and we have configured an index with it. How can i check if the UDP port is available to ingest/parse data in splunk. I need to test it via localhost.</P> Wed, 26 Jun 2019 14:25:27 GMT juhisaxena28 2019-06-26T14:25:27Z https://community.splunk.com/t5/Deployment-Architecture/Publishing-data-from-my-localhost-to-UDP-port/m-p/442670#M15594 <P>I have opened a UDP port in splunk system and we have configured an index with it. How can i check if the UDP port is available to ingest/parse data in splunk. I need to test it via localhost.</P> Wed, 26 Jun 2019 14:25:27 GMT https://community.splunk.com/t5/Deployment-Architecture/Publishing-data-from-my-localhost-to-UDP-port/m-p/442670#M15594 juhisaxena28 2019-06-26T14:25:27Z https://community.splunk.com/t5/Deployment-Architecture/Publishing-data-from-my-localhost-to-UDP-port/m-p/442671#M15595 <P>Hi @juhisaxena28 ,</P> <P>If you have access to the CLI on Linux, you can check if the port is listening using the following command:<BR /> <CODE>netstat -lvn | grep ^udp | grep &lt;your port number&gt;</CODE></P> <P>You can send test data to the port using the following command (let's say the UDP port is 5151:<BR /> <PRE>echo $(date +"%F %T") - INFO - TESTING UDP INPUT &gt; /dev/udp/localhost/5151</PRE>OR<BR /> <PRE>echo $(date +"%F %T") - INFO - TESTING UDP INPUT &gt; /dev/udp/127.0.0.1/5151</PRE></P> Wed, 26 Jun 2019 16:02:49 GMT https://community.splunk.com/t5/Deployment-Architecture/Publishing-data-from-my-localhost-to-UDP-port/m-p/442671#M15595 jnudell_2 2019-06-26T16:02:49Z