https://community.splunk.com/t5/Getting-Data-In/Splunk-Free-License-and-Free-Forwarding/m-p/60412#M11976 <P>So i could index 50GB in a single time and not be limited as i only did it once ?<BR /> Suppose i do get limited i can search that data after my searching gets re-enabled ?<BR /> How long is searching disabled ?</P> Sun, 08 Mar 2020 08:35:31 GMT gwcon 2020-03-08T08:35:31Z https://community.splunk.com/t5/Getting-Data-In/Splunk-Free-License-and-Free-Forwarding/m-p/60406#M11970 <P>I recently downloaded Splunk. Right now, I am using the free license that came with Splunk software on three different servers. Is that ok? Or do I need a different free license for each instance of Splunk I have? If so, how do I get more free licenses?</P> <P>I can also use forwarding with the free version of Splunk, correct? And how much data can I forward with the free version?</P> Wed, 29 Sep 2010 19:38:40 GMT https://community.splunk.com/t5/Getting-Data-In/Splunk-Free-License-and-Free-Forwarding/m-p/60406#M11970 ericmoss 2010-09-29T19:38:40Z https://community.splunk.com/t5/Getting-Data-In/Splunk-Free-License-and-Free-Forwarding/m-p/60407#M11971 <P>I'd suggest that you check out <A href="http://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/latest/Admin/MoreaboutSplunkFree" rel="nofollow">http://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/latest/Admin/MoreaboutSplunkFree</A> for a lot more details about the Free vs Enterprise.</P> <P>But, to answer your specific questions:</P> <OL> <LI>You can use the same free license, just remember you will have the limitations listed in the above link.</LI> <LI>Yes you can. There's an actual splunk-forwarder.license - you can rename that to splunk.license and you're set.</LI> <LI>It's not so much about the amount of data you can forwarder, it's the amount you index. The daily limit for indexing data is 500MB with a caveat. You can index as much as you want, but if you go over that limit 3 times in a 30 day period, searching will be disabled. For example, if you had 10gigs worth of data you wanted to index all at once, you can. </LI> </OL> Wed, 29 Sep 2010 19:58:23 GMT https://community.splunk.com/t5/Getting-Data-In/Splunk-Free-License-and-Free-Forwarding/m-p/60407#M11971 Brian_Osburn 2010-09-29T19:58:23Z https://community.splunk.com/t5/Getting-Data-In/Splunk-Free-License-and-Free-Forwarding/m-p/60408#M11972 <P>Thanks for the help! The main issue I have with using the the forward license is that it says I can only forward up to 1 MB per day. Any truth to that?</P> Thu, 30 Sep 2010 00:18:42 GMT https://community.splunk.com/t5/Getting-Data-In/Splunk-Free-License-and-Free-Forwarding/m-p/60408#M11972 ericmoss 2010-09-30T00:18:42Z https://community.splunk.com/t5/Getting-Data-In/Splunk-Free-License-and-Free-Forwarding/m-p/60409#M11973 <P>I'd say no, otherwise I'd be in trouble since I forward gigs a day using the free license <span class="lia-unicode-emoji" title=":slightly_smiling_face:">🙂</span></P> Thu, 30 Sep 2010 01:05:27 GMT https://community.splunk.com/t5/Getting-Data-In/Splunk-Free-License-and-Free-Forwarding/m-p/60409#M11973 Brian_Osburn 2010-09-30T01:05:27Z https://community.splunk.com/t5/Getting-Data-In/Splunk-Free-License-and-Free-Forwarding/m-p/60410#M11974 <P>You can only index 1 Mb a day locally. But in forwarder mode, you are forwarding all your data to another indexer, so nothing should be indexed locally, so the "1 MB limit" really doesn't limit you in any way.</P> Thu, 30 Sep 2010 05:29:25 GMT https://community.splunk.com/t5/Getting-Data-In/Splunk-Free-License-and-Free-Forwarding/m-p/60410#M11974 Lowell 2010-09-30T05:29:25Z https://community.splunk.com/t5/Getting-Data-In/Splunk-Free-License-and-Free-Forwarding/m-p/60411#M11975 <P>I found this link that talk about the features that you lost when use a Free license.</P> <P><A href="http://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/4.3/Admin/TypesofSplunklicenses#Free_license">http://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/4.3/Admin/TypesofSplunklicenses#Free_license</A></P> Fri, 23 Mar 2012 16:37:02 GMT https://community.splunk.com/t5/Getting-Data-In/Splunk-Free-License-and-Free-Forwarding/m-p/60411#M11975 gerardo_maya 2012-03-23T16:37:02Z https://community.splunk.com/t5/Getting-Data-In/Splunk-Free-License-and-Free-Forwarding/m-p/60412#M11976 <P>So i could index 50GB in a single time and not be limited as i only did it once ?<BR /> Suppose i do get limited i can search that data after my searching gets re-enabled ?<BR /> How long is searching disabled ?</P> Sun, 08 Mar 2020 08:35:31 GMT https://community.splunk.com/t5/Getting-Data-In/Splunk-Free-License-and-Free-Forwarding/m-p/60412#M11976 gwcon 2020-03-08T08:35:31Z