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tbellswd
Engager

Hello, I am new to Splunk and was wondering what log files I should index for Application Monitoring. Thanks!

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skylasam_splunk
Splunk Employee
Splunk Employee

If you're looking for data to populate the Application Installs and Application crashes dashboards - then you need to make sure you're collecting data for the Windows event log Application channel.
Hope that helps.

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skylasam_splunk
Splunk Employee
Splunk Employee

If you're looking for data to populate the Application Installs and Application crashes dashboards - then you need to make sure you're collecting data for the Windows event log Application channel.
Hope that helps.

tbellswd
Engager

Thank you! Do you know if there are any other log files that may be a good idea to include?

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