Make Splunk Look For Logs Inside Folders

[luteixeira]

Hello all! 🙂 

I'm currently implementing Splunk inside one of our company systems. It happens so that the logging structure works like this:

C:\Systems\System\Logs\A_Lot_Of_Folders\2020(year)\11(month)\day.txt

Since I have a lot of folders inside the Logs structure, I configured my stanza like this:

[monitor://C:\Systems\System\Logs\*]
index = MyIndex
disabled = 0
_TCP_ROUTING = my_config

I have also tried:

[monitor://C:\Systems\System\Logs]
index = MyIndex
disabled = 0
_TCP_ROUTING = my_config

But my Universal Forwarder won't look up inside the folders that I have inside the Logs directory.

Question 1: Is there a way to config a "global stanza setting" so the Universal Forwarder will look for every new event inside all of the folders or I will have to work with the hard way, configuring each and every folder with a new monitor stanza?

Question 2: Is there a way to automate whenever we turn to the next month or next year so I won't have to go back and configure all the stanzas with the current year/month that we are?

In terms of troubleshooting, I've already restarted the service and I have connectivity with the Splunk destination.

Thank you in advance!

[richgalloway · Accepted solution]

Universal Forwarders are supposed to recursively monitor subdirectories automatically, but perhaps another setting disabled that.  Try these settings.

[monitor://C:\Systems\System\Logs\...\*.txt]
index = MyIndex
disabled = 0
recursive = true
_TCP_ROUTING = my_config

[luteixeira]

Hello, Rich!

Thank you for your reply. Just upvoted your comment since the recursive attribute resolved both of my problems.

You're awesome!

Thank you again