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Custom Windows Event Log

davidts
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Our developers have created a custom Windows Event Log to log events from an In-House develop app. What would be the best way to index this custom event log?

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mloven_splunk
Splunk Employee
Splunk Employee

Just add in an input stanza like this.

[WinEventLog:customname]
disabled = 0
index=windows
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