Getting Data In

Monitoring Folders

sondradotcom
Path Finder

Splunk is monitoring several folders, but upon careful inspection I've noticed that it seems to be "skipping" files here and there. What's the easiest way to "make" Splunk go back and read in those files?

Thanks, -S.

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vaijpc
Communicator

The second half of this page might be useful in understanding how Splunk decides whether a file is new/updated. Might not help, just throwing it out there...

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vaijpc
Communicator

That sounds like it might work... never tried it myself though so only one way to find out!

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sondradotcom
Path Finder

Ah! Helpful. So, if I salt the CRC with, say, , will it go back and re-index everything, including the files that are already indexed perfectly well?

-S.

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