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I want to send logs to another index that I created, not the main index. How to do it?

sacalao
New Member

I want to send logs to another index that I created, not the main index. How to do it?

I need to configure something on the splunk server too (inputs.conf)?

Thanks!

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Dimitri_McKay
Splunk Employee
Splunk Employee

in the UI you'd go Manager > Indexes > and define the new index name.
Then you'd edit your inputs.conf for that source to point to the name of the new index.
That should do you right.

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Ayn
Legend

For the input you want to send to another index, simply specify this in the input's section in inputs.conf.

[monitor:///your/file/or/directory]
index = yourindex

http://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/latest/Admin/Inputsconf

Ayn
Legend

I'm not sure I understand the question. It doesn't matter if you got the data through a forwarder or not. You set this on the instance that's reading the files, in your case the forwarder. Duplication isn't an issue at all.

sacalao
New Member

Thanks, but I am getting the logs of a fowarder on port 9997. Using this I not'll be duplicating the data?

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