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Do forwarders require indexes.conf?

jaoui
Path Finder

If i am setting up a heavy forwarder to monitor directories and tag indexes, do i need to create an indexes.conf on it or is specifying an index in inputs.conf sufficient?

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yannK
Splunk Employee
Splunk Employee

It shouldn't be necessary.
you can have an heavy forwarder specifying index destinations based on props/transforms or in the inputs, but those indexes only exists on the indexers.

However, if you are using the CLI to specify a new input with a specific index, you may see an error about index missing. This is a bug and will be fixed, this is why it's better to use the configurations files.

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