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Where to place tags.conf?

a212830
Champion

Hi,

I want to create some tags and associate them with an index. Where would tags.conf be put? Search Head? Indexer?

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muebel
SplunkTrust
SplunkTrust

Hi a212830,

Generally you would want to create an eventtype (some particular search, could just be index="your_index" and then set tag_name=enabled for that eventtype in tags.conf.

Both eventtypes and tags are search time operations, and so this config only needs set on whatever instance you are searching from.

Please let me know if this answers your question! 😄

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dcsre
Observer

Old thread here, but I'm having trouble getting the tag to show up in  console searches after restarting the host forwarder service. Running 8.2.5 server and 9.0.0.1 forwarder agent.

/splunkforwarder/etc/system/local/tags.conf content:
[host=server01]
myapp = enabled

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woodcock
Esteemed Legend

On your Search Head(s).

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muebel
SplunkTrust
SplunkTrust

Hi a212830,

Generally you would want to create an eventtype (some particular search, could just be index="your_index" and then set tag_name=enabled for that eventtype in tags.conf.

Both eventtypes and tags are search time operations, and so this config only needs set on whatever instance you are searching from.

Please let me know if this answers your question! 😄

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a212830
Champion

Makes sense, just not working. I have an app on my license manager, and put an eventtypes.conf and a tags.conf and restarted it. The eventtype is recognized, but I can't find the tag.

eventtypes.conf:
[network_index]
search = index=network

tags.conf:
[eventtype=network_index]
costBU = GNS

When I look for tags in the gui, they don't appear. I'm doing this as admin.

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muebel
SplunkTrust
SplunkTrust

the format for tags is <tagname> = [enabled|disabled]

so, costBU = enabled or GNS = enabled

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a212830
Champion

Ok, so that enables the tag? Can I populate it?

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muebel
SplunkTrust
SplunkTrust

Correct, that enables the tag. Once set, and splunk is reloaded/restarted, when you run searches you'll find the tag field show up for any events that match that eventtype, and therefore that tag.

You can also directly search for a tag, i.e. tag="costBU" OR tag="GNS"

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a212830
Champion

Got it. Thanks!

muebel
SplunkTrust
SplunkTrust

sure thing, glad to help! 😄

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