topic Why am I receiving this error: Skipping itemPath, does not match path.... in Getting Data In

Why am I receiving this error: Skipping itemPath, does not match path....

ehowardl3 — Wed, 30 Mar 2022 15:56:54 GMT

I've recently been running into issues with Splunk not ingesting files, both on universal and heavy forwarders. The example here is a UF on a Windows server. In this example, I'm trying to ingest \\path\to\file.csv, and the error I get is:

DEBUG TailingProcessor - Skipping itemPath='E:\path\to\some\other\file.txt, does not match path='\\path\to\file.csv' :Not a directory :Not a symlink

My input looks like:

[monitor://\\\\path\to\file.csv]
index = myindex
sourcetype = mysourcetype
initCrcLength = 512

Also, I had to turn on debug logging in log.cfg to even see these errors. Otherwise there were no errors at all.

Any ideas?

Thanks

Re: Skipping itemPath, does not match path....

timrich66 — Mon, 14 Sep 2020 09:56:47 GMT

Hi, I am getting the same error on a unix box. Did you ever come to a conclusion? The input works fine for exactly the same path on a different server.

Re: Skipping itemPath, does not match path....

EUgalder — Wed, 30 Sep 2020 19:35:30 GMT

I have the same issue.
Somebody know how to fix this??

Re: Skipping itemPath, does not match path....

edoardo_vicendo — Wed, 30 Mar 2022 15:30:51 GMT

Same here, the UF was working fine on a Windows server than suddenly started to not ingest the file anymore. To see the error I had to put in debug mode the universal forwarder. The strange thing is that other files are still monitored and forwarded correctly.

I have even added followSymlink=false and CHECK_METHOD=modtime without any luck

#inputs.conf
[monitor://D:\path\to_*\file-*_*.csv]
disabled=0
index=myindex
sourcetype=mysourcetype
crcSalt = <SOURCE>
followSymlink=false

#props.conf
[source::D:\path\to_*\file-*_*.csv]
CHECK_METHOD=modtime