topic Re: How do I delete old data for old data inputs, and why is our receiver not receiving any data from our universal forwarder? in Getting Data In https://community.splunk.com/t5/Getting-Data-In/How-do-I-delete-old-data-for-old-data-inputs-and-why-is-our/m-p/237736#M46187 <P>If you want the clear all data from an <STRONG>index</STRONG> you can use the CLI:</P> <PRE><CODE>bin/splunk stop bin/splunk clean eventdata -index &lt;yourindex&gt; bin/splunk start </CODE></PRE> Wed, 18 Nov 2015 10:14:09 GMT Sebastian2 2015-11-18T10:14:09Z How do I delete old data for old data inputs, and why is our receiver not receiving any data from our universal forwarder? https://community.splunk.com/t5/Getting-Data-In/How-do-I-delete-old-data-for-old-data-inputs-and-why-is-our/m-p/237734#M46185 <P>I created some remote data inputs which worked well.</P> <P>The documentation recommended using a universal forwarder for better performance.</P> <P>I deleted the old data inputs ok, but the data remains.</P> <P>How do I delete the old data?</P> <P>(we are doing the free trial, so just trying to work out the best way to do things. The old data is not important).</P> Tue, 17 Nov 2015 15:52:00 GMT https://community.splunk.com/t5/Getting-Data-In/How-do-I-delete-old-data-for-old-data-inputs-and-why-is-our/m-p/237734#M46185 mr_dombat 2015-11-17T15:52:00Z Re: How do I delete old data for old data inputs, and why is our receiver not receiving any data from our universal forwarder? https://community.splunk.com/t5/Getting-Data-In/How-do-I-delete-old-data-for-old-data-inputs-and-why-is-our/m-p/237735#M46186 <P>Give user the can_delete permissions<BR /> Search for the old data (by source or somthing like that). If you found the data (and only the data you want to remove) do the same search, and place " | delete " after it.</P> <P>Is will "hide" data and NOT remove it from disk</P> Wed, 18 Nov 2015 10:00:36 GMT https://community.splunk.com/t5/Getting-Data-In/How-do-I-delete-old-data-for-old-data-inputs-and-why-is-our/m-p/237735#M46186 teunlaan 2015-11-18T10:00:36Z Re: How do I delete old data for old data inputs, and why is our receiver not receiving any data from our universal forwarder? https://community.splunk.com/t5/Getting-Data-In/How-do-I-delete-old-data-for-old-data-inputs-and-why-is-our/m-p/237736#M46187 <P>If you want the clear all data from an <STRONG>index</STRONG> you can use the CLI:</P> <PRE><CODE>bin/splunk stop bin/splunk clean eventdata -index &lt;yourindex&gt; bin/splunk start </CODE></PRE> Wed, 18 Nov 2015 10:14:09 GMT https://community.splunk.com/t5/Getting-Data-In/How-do-I-delete-old-data-for-old-data-inputs-and-why-is-our/m-p/237736#M46187 Sebastian2 2015-11-18T10:14:09Z