Getting Data In

How did logs from a heavy forwarder get indexed when Splunk was not running?

Madhan45
Path Finder

Splunk was running on a heavy forwarder during the time period 00:00 to 00:20. Related logs also have been found in splunkd.log & splunkd_stderr.log.
I got few logs from the HF at 23:00. How is it possible?
If Splunk is not running, how did these logs get indexed?

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jmallorquin
Builder

Hi,

If the logs has timestamp, splunk index in the timestamp of the log. So if the log was create at 23:00, its normal that you have events in that time. Also review the timezone in which you are index the events.

Hope i help you.

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Madhan45
Path Finder

The event generated time and index time both are same. there was no lagging in event. splunk was running only for the time period 00:00 00:20 after thet till now i didn't start splunk. then how did those logs get index?

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jmallorquin
Builder

Open the events of the log and check if are there events from 23:00

Hope i help you

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