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Why does running ps.sh and ps from the host show more data than running a search in Splunk?

banderson7
Communicator

Running the search hostname=hostname index=os source=ps doesn't show all the information that running ps.sh from the host shows. For example, I don't see my Java command. Can someone help w/ this?

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woodcock
Esteemed Legend

The command will run on the Forwarder as the user that owns/runs the splunkd process. That user may not be privileged enough to show everything. See about giving sudo to that user and running the ps as root with sudo.

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banderson7
Communicator

That's not it unfortunately. Splunk runs as the splunk user on the server, and when I login to the server as that user and run ps, I get all the data I expect.

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pkeller
Contributor

This sounds like you might be getting truncated after 256 events (the default). If that's the case, you could update props.conf for the 'ps' sourcetype with TRUNCATE = 0.

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