https://community.splunk.com/t5/Splunk-Search/how-to-extract-data-on-hourly-basis-in-Windows-platform/m-p/70429#M180703 <P>Hi Team,</P> <P>My Scenario is to fetch data from my local directory(Windows OS) into Splunk on hourly basis, if the file is placed then Splunk had to identify the file and extract the data. And want to automate the process, please help me.</P> <P>Thanks,<BR /> Pramod</P> Fri, 21 Dec 2012 09:24:24 GMT pramodkumar 2012-12-21T09:24:24Z https://community.splunk.com/t5/Splunk-Search/how-to-extract-data-on-hourly-basis-in-Windows-platform/m-p/70429#M180703 <P>Hi Team,</P> <P>My Scenario is to fetch data from my local directory(Windows OS) into Splunk on hourly basis, if the file is placed then Splunk had to identify the file and extract the data. And want to automate the process, please help me.</P> <P>Thanks,<BR /> Pramod</P> Fri, 21 Dec 2012 09:24:24 GMT https://community.splunk.com/t5/Splunk-Search/how-to-extract-data-on-hourly-basis-in-Windows-platform/m-p/70429#M180703 pramodkumar 2012-12-21T09:24:24Z https://community.splunk.com/t5/Splunk-Search/how-to-extract-data-on-hourly-basis-in-Windows-platform/m-p/70430#M180704 <P>create/edit a file called <CODE>inputs.conf</CODE> in <CODE>c:\program files\splunk\etc\system\local</CODE></P> <PRE><CODE>[monitor://c:\path\dir] index=blah sourcetype=blah </CODE></PRE> <P>Any file that gets put into the directory will be automatically indexed, and continually monitored for new additions. If your files are updated, splunk will see that almost immediately and index the new events. </P> <P>For more information, see the Getting Data In section of the manual.</P> <P>Hope this helps,</P> <P>Kristian</P> Fri, 21 Dec 2012 14:09:05 GMT https://community.splunk.com/t5/Splunk-Search/how-to-extract-data-on-hourly-basis-in-Windows-platform/m-p/70430#M180704 kristian_kolb 2012-12-21T14:09:05Z