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Is it possible to install a Splunk forwarder on centralized rsyslog server to filter out unwanted events before forwarding data to our indexer?

jwalzerpitt
Influencer

We use the nxlog agent on out Windows domain controllers/Exchange servers/IIS servers and forward to a centralized rsyslog server.

Would it be possible to install the Splunk Forwarder on the centralized rsyslog server and filter the syslogs that would be forwarded from the centralized rsyslog server to our Splunk indexer to help filter out the unwanted events?

Thx

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martin_mueller
SplunkTrust
SplunkTrust

Yeah, provided you use a heavy forwarder instead of a universal forwarder.

Note, you can have your indexer(s) filter data regardless of where it came from.

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