Alerting

Splunk heavy forwarder

tonyArad
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Hi,

I'm new to Splunk and I'd like to forward data from Splunk to an external server upon event occurrence.
From what I read so far, a heavy forwarder should be used to do so since it's the only forwarder that supports alert. Am I in the right direction?

Thanks!
Tony

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lukejadamec
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Yes, you need a heavy forwarder, but if you mean from you main splunk instance, then you don't need to install it because the main splunk instance is a heavy forwarder.

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lukejadamec
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Yes, you need a heavy forwarder, but if you mean from you main splunk instance, then you don't need to install it because the main splunk instance is a heavy forwarder.

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