Getting Data In

How Splunk collects data after a specific time

spl_stu
Explorer
A file directory needs to be collected, but there is a large amount of historical data in the file directory. If I currently point to collecting data from the last three days, is there a parameter to control the collection of files after the specified time?
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PickleRick
SplunkTrust
SplunkTrust

There are parameters which restrict monitor inputs to reading only recently modified files (https://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/latest/admin/inputsconf - see the ignoreOlderThan parameter). But this parameter applies to file modification time, not the event time.

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