topic Re: Data ingest in Getting Data In

Data ingest

splunkville — Sat, 09 Aug 2025 12:42:04 GMT

Monitor set to pull in a watched log that has no props/transforms configs applied. This would ingest the entire file contents, correct?

Re: Data ingest

gcusello — Sat, 09 Aug 2025 13:47:26 GMT

Hi @splunkville ,

yes, in general, if you configure a monitor you read the file, but what's your issue and you question?

Are you working on a Universal Forwarder or a stand alone Splunk server or what else?

Please, share more datails about your issue.

Ciao.

Giuseppe

Re: Data ingest

livehybrid — Sat, 09 Aug 2025 14:07:15 GMT

Hi @splunkville

The default configurations for a sourcetype can often be "good enough" for some logs, Splunk does a good job at determining timestamp extraction but if your logs contain multi-line events, long lines (>10000 chars),multiple timestamps or anything like this then it might struggle or you might get mixed results.

Its also worth noting that from a performance perspective its best to tweak these settings and incorporate the "Great 8" (See https://lantern.splunk.com/Splunk_Platform/Product_Tips/Data_Management/Configuring_new_source_types) to ensure accuracy but also to improve performance of the data being ingested.

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Re: Data ingest

splunkville — Sat, 09 Aug 2025 17:39:41 GMT

Since no configs are telling splunk how to parse the data, it will pull in / read the entire contents of the file by default. That is my understanding.

This monitor is set in a config file pushed to the uf. All I'm doing is telling splunk to go get that log. Not concerned with formatting / parsing right now. Is there anything that will stop / limit this incoming data?

Re: Data ingest

gcusello — Mon, 11 Aug 2025 07:13:43 GMT

Hi @splunkville ,

yes it is correct, but what's your issue?

Ciao.

Giuseppe