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Is there a way to place comments in your inputs.conf file? My file will be over 1000 stanzas long so comments would be a nice way for someone else to understand it.
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Use the hash or pound sign (#) before a comment.
http://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/latest/admin/inputsconf
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Well - not saying that you don't need it. But usually you can make use of wildcards, recursing, whitelists/blacklists etc to make the number actual inputs.conf stanzas more manageable. Perhaps that is not possible in your case.
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We have hundreds of servers with 1000's of log files
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It sounds like that could be simplified somehow. I've never heard of anything like a 1000 stanzas in a single inputs.conf. To me, 50 would be a rather large inputs.conf.
What's your scenario?
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Use the hash or pound sign (#) before a comment.
http://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/latest/admin/inputsconf
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