Getting Data In

Configuration of Universal forwarder sending log to Cluster master

gopankallazhy
New Member

Hello,

I have configured our cluster master to receive log in certain port and also configured the cluster master to forward to two indexer nodes.

Now we have universal forwarder installed in few servers from which we need to send the logs to cluster master instead of directly sending to two indexer nodes. Can I directly configure the output conf to point to the cluster master ip and receiver port?
or is there anything I need to configure specifically for this in cluster master?

Thanks,
Gopa

Labels (1)
0 Karma

richgalloway
SplunkTrust
SplunkTrust

Universal forwarders do not send data to Cluster Masters. They merely ask the CM for a list of indexers and then send the data to them. Do that by adding indexerDiscovery = <CMname> to outputs.conf file on each UF.

---
If this reply helps you, Karma would be appreciated.
0 Karma
Get Updates on the Splunk Community!

Accelerating Observability as Code with the Splunk AI Assistant

We’ve seen in previous posts what Observability as Code (OaC) is and how it’s now essential for managing ...

Integrating Splunk Search API and Quarto to Create Reproducible Investigation ...

 Splunk is More Than Just the Web Console For Digital Forensics and Incident Response (DFIR) practitioners, ...

Congratulations to the 2025-2026 SplunkTrust!

Hello, Splunk Community! We are beyond thrilled to announce our newest group of SplunkTrust members!  The ...