https://community.splunk.com/t5/Getting-Data-In/Why-am-I-unable-to-connect-to-Splunk-cloud-from-universal/m-p/419397#M73905 <P>I have installed the universal forwarder according to </P> <P><A href="http://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/SplunkCloud/7.0.5/User/ForwardDataToSplunkCloudFromLinux">http://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/SplunkCloud/7.0.5/User/ForwardDataToSplunkCloudFromLinux</A></P> <P>But in Step 5, I am not able find my host on Splunk cloud.</P> <P>I also tried adding the forward server using "splunk add forward-server prd-p-npv9nbngb7j9.cloud.splunk.com:9997" and manually added monitor to inputs.conf.</P> <P>telnet prd-p-npv9nbngb7j9.cloud.splunk.com 9997 --&gt;gave a timeout</P> Mon, 08 Oct 2018 09:32:56 GMT yantriks 2018-10-08T09:32:56Z https://community.splunk.com/t5/Getting-Data-In/Why-am-I-unable-to-connect-to-Splunk-cloud-from-universal/m-p/419397#M73905 <P>I have installed the universal forwarder according to </P> <P><A href="http://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/SplunkCloud/7.0.5/User/ForwardDataToSplunkCloudFromLinux">http://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/SplunkCloud/7.0.5/User/ForwardDataToSplunkCloudFromLinux</A></P> <P>But in Step 5, I am not able find my host on Splunk cloud.</P> <P>I also tried adding the forward server using "splunk add forward-server prd-p-npv9nbngb7j9.cloud.splunk.com:9997" and manually added monitor to inputs.conf.</P> <P>telnet prd-p-npv9nbngb7j9.cloud.splunk.com 9997 --&gt;gave a timeout</P> Mon, 08 Oct 2018 09:32:56 GMT https://community.splunk.com/t5/Getting-Data-In/Why-am-I-unable-to-connect-to-Splunk-cloud-from-universal/m-p/419397#M73905 yantriks 2018-10-08T09:32:56Z https://community.splunk.com/t5/Getting-Data-In/Why-am-I-unable-to-connect-to-Splunk-cloud-from-universal/m-p/419398#M73906 <P>You need to log into your cloud instance and download the credentials app, I believe it is under the Universal Forwarder app on the left hand side. This app will point to your cloud instance and also contains the certificates for secure sending of your data.</P> Thu, 25 Oct 2018 20:30:44 GMT https://community.splunk.com/t5/Getting-Data-In/Why-am-I-unable-to-connect-to-Splunk-cloud-from-universal/m-p/419398#M73906 kmorris_splunk 2018-10-25T20:30:44Z