topic Splunk Not ingesting in Getting Data In https://community.splunk.com/t5/Getting-Data-In/Splunk-Not-ingesting/m-p/680358#M113677 <PRE>Referring to the below inputs.conf for one of my windows server , as you can see, there is some whitespace at the end of the first line before the closing bracket. The "folderA" is the folder where the contents, splunk should be ingesting but is not (there are multiple log files inside). Is there a possibility that because of this whitespace Splunk may not be ingesting the logs? And if yes, any explanation on this so that we can explain/advise to the client.<BR /><BR />" <BR />[monitor://C:\Program Files\somepath\folderA ] index=someindex sourcetype=somesourcetype<BR /> "</PRE> Tue, 12 Mar 2024 07:35:48 GMT YJ 2024-03-12T07:35:48Z Splunk Not ingesting https://community.splunk.com/t5/Getting-Data-In/Splunk-Not-ingesting/m-p/680358#M113677 <PRE>Referring to the below inputs.conf for one of my windows server , as you can see, there is some whitespace at the end of the first line before the closing bracket. The "folderA" is the folder where the contents, splunk should be ingesting but is not (there are multiple log files inside). Is there a possibility that because of this whitespace Splunk may not be ingesting the logs? And if yes, any explanation on this so that we can explain/advise to the client.<BR /><BR />" <BR />[monitor://C:\Program Files\somepath\folderA ] index=someindex sourcetype=somesourcetype<BR /> "</PRE> Tue, 12 Mar 2024 07:35:48 GMT https://community.splunk.com/t5/Getting-Data-In/Splunk-Not-ingesting/m-p/680358#M113677 YJ 2024-03-12T07:35:48Z Re: Splunk Not ingesting https://community.splunk.com/t5/Getting-Data-In/Splunk-Not-ingesting/m-p/680359#M113678 <P>Hi&nbsp;<a href="https://community.splunk.com/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/260002">@YJ</a>,</P><P>please try this:</P><LI-CODE lang="markup">[monitor://C:\Program Files\somepath\folderA*\*] index=someindex sourcetype=somesourcetype</LI-CODE><P>Ciao.</P><P>Giuseppe</P> Tue, 12 Mar 2024 08:02:49 GMT https://community.splunk.com/t5/Getting-Data-In/Splunk-Not-ingesting/m-p/680359#M113678 gcusello 2024-03-12T08:02:49Z