https://community.splunk.com/t5/Getting-Data-In/Determine-whether-forwarder-has-records-left-to-be-sent/m-p/62642#M12521 <P>We are working in an auto-scaled PAAS environment where servers can be terminated with very little notice. I'd like to be able to delay server shutdown to ensure that all of the records have been forwarded from specific files. Is there any way to query the light forwarder client to see whether there are records waiting to be sent?</P> Tue, 18 Sep 2012 01:33:14 GMT ianmaddox4bookr 2012-09-18T01:33:14Z https://community.splunk.com/t5/Getting-Data-In/Determine-whether-forwarder-has-records-left-to-be-sent/m-p/62642#M12521 <P>We are working in an auto-scaled PAAS environment where servers can be terminated with very little notice. I'd like to be able to delay server shutdown to ensure that all of the records have been forwarded from specific files. Is there any way to query the light forwarder client to see whether there are records waiting to be sent?</P> Tue, 18 Sep 2012 01:33:14 GMT https://community.splunk.com/t5/Getting-Data-In/Determine-whether-forwarder-has-records-left-to-be-sent/m-p/62642#M12521 ianmaddox4bookr 2012-09-18T01:33:14Z https://community.splunk.com/t5/Getting-Data-In/Determine-whether-forwarder-has-records-left-to-be-sent/m-p/62643#M12522 <P>you might want to look at this :</P> <P><A href="http://blogs.splunk.com/2011/01/02/did-i-miss-christmas-2/">http://blogs.splunk.com/2011/01/02/did-i-miss-christmas-2/</A></P> Tue, 18 Sep 2012 20:06:41 GMT https://community.splunk.com/t5/Getting-Data-In/Determine-whether-forwarder-has-records-left-to-be-sent/m-p/62643#M12522 MarioM 2012-09-18T20:06:41Z https://community.splunk.com/t5/Getting-Data-In/Determine-whether-forwarder-has-records-left-to-be-sent/m-p/62644#M12523 <P>That works great, thanks!</P> Fri, 21 Sep 2012 01:56:38 GMT https://community.splunk.com/t5/Getting-Data-In/Determine-whether-forwarder-has-records-left-to-be-sent/m-p/62644#M12523 ianmaddox4bookr 2012-09-21T01:56:38Z