https://community.splunk.com/t5/Getting-Data-In/What-is-the-Source-exactly/m-p/239718#M46590 <P>Hi All,</P> <P>I am new to this area. Suppose my business is running on a Linux server and I want to know any errors occurred or suppose if the server is restarted, can I put this server as a source and monitor the performance? Please clarify for me. I just want to know what actually is the source here.</P> Thu, 05 May 2016 17:43:10 GMT VenkatKosuri 2016-05-05T17:43:10Z https://community.splunk.com/t5/Getting-Data-In/What-is-the-Source-exactly/m-p/239718#M46590 <P>Hi All,</P> <P>I am new to this area. Suppose my business is running on a Linux server and I want to know any errors occurred or suppose if the server is restarted, can I put this server as a source and monitor the performance? Please clarify for me. I just want to know what actually is the source here.</P> Thu, 05 May 2016 17:43:10 GMT https://community.splunk.com/t5/Getting-Data-In/What-is-the-Source-exactly/m-p/239718#M46590 VenkatKosuri 2016-05-05T17:43:10Z https://community.splunk.com/t5/Getting-Data-In/What-is-the-Source-exactly/m-p/239719#M46591 <P>You may want to consider using this app</P> <P><A href="https://splunkbase.splunk.com/app/273/">https://splunkbase.splunk.com/app/273/</A></P> Thu, 05 May 2016 17:51:44 GMT https://community.splunk.com/t5/Getting-Data-In/What-is-the-Source-exactly/m-p/239719#M46591 sundareshr 2016-05-05T17:51:44Z https://community.splunk.com/t5/Getting-Data-In/What-is-the-Source-exactly/m-p/239720#M46592 <P>That should be possible, do you have any more detail you can provide? Do you just want to monitor the source of the data, or do you want to monitor only after an event has occurred? Splunk should be pulling the host and source information automatically, and you can search by say source=(name of source) or host=(name of host)</P> Thu, 05 May 2016 19:23:46 GMT https://community.splunk.com/t5/Getting-Data-In/What-is-the-Source-exactly/m-p/239720#M46592 nolesrb5343 2016-05-05T19:23:46Z