Getting Data In

Local Event Log Collection on Mac

White-Hax
New Member

Hello,

I am brand new to Splunk and after watching a short tutorial to get started, I saw that Settings => Data Input => Local Event Log Collection did not appear on my version of Splunk Enterprise. I have it on Mac OS Monterey and it seems to work fine, but I know most use it on Windows. Please, can someone help me find how to log local events on Splunk for Mac?

Thank you for your help.

Noé

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isoutamo
SplunkTrust
SplunkTrust

Hi

the newer splunk versions have added own monitor for macOS’ logd. You should use it. https://lantern.splunk.com/Data_Descriptors/Mac_OS/Collecting_Mac_OS_log_files
r. Ismo

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