Getting Data In

Change initial date then stop ingestion

karn
Path Finder

I have disabled input (generic S3) of aws add-on for a year. After I enable it, it ingests old data so I disable it and change initial date in inputs.conf. After restarting splunk serevice, I enable it but no data coming. I tried clone and changed only the name. No data coming also. I don't know how to check it. Is it checkpoint issue or somethings? Please help me to check it.

Thanks for Advance

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livehybrid
SplunkTrust
SplunkTrust

Hi @karn 

I would have said clone the input, but you've done that? So the name of the input is definately different than the original? The reason I ask is that looking at the code, the checkpoint name is created based on the input name. 

The two checkpoint files that the Generic S3 Input creates (key/index ckpt) are stored in the checkpoint directory (typically $SPLUNK_HOME/var/lib/splunk/modinputs/aws_s3) - Can you check in there to see what you have in there?

You could stop Splunk and clear the relevant modinput checkpoint files and then start Splunk again.

If that doesnt work then check you _internal logs for any errors, or more info about which data it is pulling in when the input runs.

 

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karn
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I change interval time to 600s also.

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