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Lastchance index troubleshooting

ayomotukoya — Sat, 28 Jun 2025 20:16:45 GMT

Re: Lastchance index troubleshooting

richgalloway — Mon, 24 Feb 2025 17:54:22 GMT

There should be a bulletin message saying an event was put in lastchanceindex because the intended index doesn't exist. Look for and correct the intended index name on the syslog server.

Re: Lastchance index troubleshooting

kiran_panchavat — Mon, 24 Feb 2025 18:13:43 GMT

@ayomotukoya As @richgalloway said, lastchanceindex is a Pre-defined in Splunk Cloud. Accepts events sent to a non-existing index. So please create index first before onboarding data to Splunk Cloud.

lastchanceindex:-

[Input Y]
index = $%^&*

Re: Lastchance index troubleshooting

ayomotukoya — Mon, 24 Feb 2025 18:44:47 GMT

thankyou, where would that bulletin be found? We get a number of events into our lastchance index.

Re: Lastchance index troubleshooting

richgalloway — Mon, 24 Feb 2025 18:48:51 GMT

Bulletin messages are found in the "Messages" dropdown.

If the messages are no longer available, you can use the host, source and sourcetype values in lastchanceindex to find where the data is coming from and make the necessary corrections.