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I have 16 clients sending data to forwarders and to splunk cloud how do I create a new index ? Should I create it in deployment server or support case with splunk?

sridhar2901
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I have 16 clients sending data to forwarders and to splunk cloud how do I create a new index ? Should I create it in deployment server or support case with splunk?

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esix_splunk
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You should create this on the Splunk Cloud side. You can create indexes yourself, via the GUI.

Go to *Settings > Indexes * and create new.

That will create them.

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