topic Multiple index locations for forwarder in Getting Data In

Multiple index locations for forwarder

aaronkorn — Tue, 09 Apr 2013 20:11:57 GMT

Is there a way on the universal forwarder to send different data types to different indexers? For example, we want to send logA to indexerA and logB to indexerB from the same system where the universal forwarder is installed.

Re: Multiple index locations for forwarder

Ayn — Tue, 09 Apr 2013 20:36:52 GMT

Yes. Just specify index=theindexyouwanttouse in the monitor in inputs.conf.

Re: Multiple index locations for forwarder

aaronkorn — Tue, 09 Apr 2013 20:38:54 GMT

But the different indexes reside on different servers.

Re: Multiple index locations for forwarder

Ayn — Tue, 09 Apr 2013 20:47:17 GMT

My apologies, I missed that 'r' in 'indexers' 🙂

In that case my answer would be no. You could do that with a Splunk instance that performs parsing, but Universal Forwarders don't do that.