topic Why is Splunk not indexing logs located in a directory containing multiple levels of subdirectories? in Getting Data In https://community.splunk.com/t5/Getting-Data-In/Why-is-Splunk-not-indexing-logs-located-in-a-directory/m-p/258809#M49680 <P>I set up a data input to index all the data from the following path </P> <PRE><CODE>/pipeline/node </CODE></PRE> <P>This directory contains multiple subdirectories, and each of these subdirectories contains 5 subdirectories and a log file. Splunk is picking up and indexing the log file in the first level of subdirectory but it is not indexing the log files contained within the other five subdirectories.</P> <P>Any thoughts on why this is happening?</P> Wed, 30 Nov 2016 19:09:55 GMT byu168168 2016-11-30T19:09:55Z Why is Splunk not indexing logs located in a directory containing multiple levels of subdirectories? https://community.splunk.com/t5/Getting-Data-In/Why-is-Splunk-not-indexing-logs-located-in-a-directory/m-p/258809#M49680 <P>I set up a data input to index all the data from the following path </P> <PRE><CODE>/pipeline/node </CODE></PRE> <P>This directory contains multiple subdirectories, and each of these subdirectories contains 5 subdirectories and a log file. Splunk is picking up and indexing the log file in the first level of subdirectory but it is not indexing the log files contained within the other five subdirectories.</P> <P>Any thoughts on why this is happening?</P> Wed, 30 Nov 2016 19:09:55 GMT https://community.splunk.com/t5/Getting-Data-In/Why-is-Splunk-not-indexing-logs-located-in-a-directory/m-p/258809#M49680 byu168168 2016-11-30T19:09:55Z Re: Why is Splunk not indexing logs located in a directory containing multiple levels of subdirectories? https://community.splunk.com/t5/Getting-Data-In/Why-is-Splunk-not-indexing-logs-located-in-a-directory/m-p/258810#M49681 <P>Have you tried monitoring <CODE>/pipeline/node/*</CODE>?</P> Wed, 30 Nov 2016 20:15:23 GMT https://community.splunk.com/t5/Getting-Data-In/Why-is-Splunk-not-indexing-logs-located-in-a-directory/m-p/258810#M49681 richgalloway 2016-11-30T20:15:23Z Re: Why is Splunk not indexing logs located in a directory containing multiple levels of subdirectories? https://community.splunk.com/t5/Getting-Data-In/Why-is-Splunk-not-indexing-logs-located-in-a-directory/m-p/258811#M49682 <P>I have tried using a wildcard character and ellipses to recursively catch the subdirectories but neither seems to work.</P> Thu, 01 Dec 2016 17:37:43 GMT https://community.splunk.com/t5/Getting-Data-In/Why-is-Splunk-not-indexing-logs-located-in-a-directory/m-p/258811#M49682 byu168168 2016-12-01T17:37:43Z