topic Re: How to exclude files from indexing using blacklist? in Getting Data In

How to exclude files from indexing using blacklist?

sergeyvinnik — Wed, 25 Jun 2014 01:02:01 GMT

I need to blacklist files with specific letters inside the hostname like:

d:\logs\xxxxxxxxxMyLog__yyyyyyyy.txt

In this sample I want to ignore files with "MyLog__" combination inside the hostname.
What should I enter into Blacklist field in Web GUI?

emechler_splunk — Wed, 25 Jun 2014 02:03:01 GMT

When you say hostname, do you really mean the full path name to the file?

dshpritz — Wed, 25 Jun 2014 02:59:03 GMT

You would enter something like:

.*MyLog__.*