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How do I exclude WinEventsLog:Application files from being forwarded?

mawomommoh
Path Finder

Whenever I check the files that have been forwarded to my Splunk index, I see a bunch of files having their source = WinEventsLog:Application. I did not explicitly put a monitor stanza for such files and I wonder why my forwarder is always sending them to my Splunk instance. When I look at the individual events of the source, they are of the form:

  • LogName=Application
    SourceName=Microsoft-Windows-CertificateServicesClient-CertEnroll
    ...

  • LogName=Application
    SourceName=Symantec Antivirus
    ...

  • LogName=Application
    SourceName=NVWMI
    ...

... indicates that there are more field-value pairs in the events.

How do I exclude or prevent my forwarder from sending files from the WinEventsLog:Application source? It is clogging my index with data I don't need. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks!

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mawomommoh
Path Finder

Thanks for the info!

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