https://community.splunk.com/t5/Getting-Data-In/question-about-blacklist/m-p/318831#M59573 <P>_balcklist is a deprecated command, so try using blacklist instead. In fact if you are aware of all accpeted file type you should define the whitelist instead of blacklist.</P> <P>In your example please try the following instead:</P> <PRE><CODE>blacklist = \.txt$ </CODE></PRE> Sun, 26 Feb 2017 11:22:07 GMT niketn 2017-02-26T11:22:07Z https://community.splunk.com/t5/Getting-Data-In/question-about-blacklist/m-p/318830#M59572 <P>Here is the section in my inputs.conf.<BR /> It deals with dynamically folder name, the ... could be the folder number name such as 334, the next build it will be 335, etc.<BR /> but I want to exclude other folders that fall into the ...<BR /> They are<BR /> C:\JENKINS\jobs\Smoke_Test\builds\lastUnsuccessfulBuild\log<BR /> C:\JENKINS\jobs\Smoke_Test\builds\lastsuccessfulBuild\log<BR /> C:\JENKINS\jobs\Smoke_Test\builds\lastStableBuild\log</P> <P>I tried to modify the _blacklist but couldn't get it work.<BR /> Any help?</P> <P>[monitor://C:\JENKINS\jobs\Smoke_Test\builds...\log]<BR /> disabled = false<BR /> sourcetype = gatling_log<BR /> _blacklist = .(gz)$<BR /> index=os<BR /> crcSalt = </P> Tue, 29 Sep 2020 12:59:19 GMT https://community.splunk.com/t5/Getting-Data-In/question-about-blacklist/m-p/318830#M59572 abzmhzsplunk 2020-09-29T12:59:19Z https://community.splunk.com/t5/Getting-Data-In/question-about-blacklist/m-p/318831#M59573 <P>_balcklist is a deprecated command, so try using blacklist instead. In fact if you are aware of all accpeted file type you should define the whitelist instead of blacklist.</P> <P>In your example please try the following instead:</P> <PRE><CODE>blacklist = \.txt$ </CODE></PRE> Sun, 26 Feb 2017 11:22:07 GMT https://community.splunk.com/t5/Getting-Data-In/question-about-blacklist/m-p/318831#M59573 niketn 2017-02-26T11:22:07Z