Getting Data In

Index just filenames in a directory

cejohnson
Explorer

Is it possible to just index a directory of filenames? I have a directory containing gobs of logfiles. I really don't need the data from them, but the filenames contain enough info that I could do some easy counts and stats using splunk.

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lrhazi
Path Finder

Your data source could be a script that runs /bin/ls /path/to/your/dir

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cejohnson
Explorer

I'm not sure that would work for me. One of the things I'd like to do is continually monitor the directory and display the counts of some of the different file types that show up in there, updating the dashboard every X number of minutes. I'm able to determine the different file types based on the naming convention.

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