Modular input log file and its ingestion for Appinspect

[mtroianovskyi]

Our app's modular input is writing its logs into $SPLUNK_HOME/var/log/$APP_NAME/$LOG_NAME.log - this conforms to the Appinspect check Operating system standards - Check that applications only write to the following directories.

However, when we try to add the default/inputs.conf with the monitor stanza to ingest the modular input logs into _internal index, we get the failure - Check [fifo] or [monitor] stanza is not used in inputs.conf unless the input stanza is used to ingest data from $SPLUNK_HOME/var/log/splunk.

So one check suggests to use $SPLUNK_HOME/var/log/$APP_NAME while the other check suggests $SPLUNK_HOME/var/log/splunk instead. So it is not clear what directory has to be used for the custom app modular input logs.

[mtroianovskyi · Accepted solution]

As suggested by alacercogitatus on splunk-usergroups:

you should write to var/log/splunk/<appname>/modinput.log, and include a Diag.py so that you can do splunk diag --collect app:<appname> and only get your own files, and not the whole system