Is it possible to monitor whether there are any files in a folder without indexing them?

[newbiesplunk]

Hi,

Is it possible to monitor whether there are any files in a folder without indexing them?

thks

[sanjay_shrestha]

If you do not prefer to ingest file then you can write a script and run in desired interval (via cron or scheduler), which will continuously monitors a folder and write a log with one event with file count information.

e.g.
04/02/2015 10:20:30.00 - File Count = 2

then you can create an alert for this event.