Getting Data In

Monitoring unique log files

user789
New Member

What is the best way to monitor log files that are unique to a host?
For example, if hosta has log.x, and hostb has log.y, and so on, what would be the best way to define/import these logs from each individual host if they are unique to only one system within an environment?

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afx
Contributor

I assume you want one deployed app for all the hosts.
Can you define the file names via a regex?

https://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/8.0.3/Data/Specifyinputpathswithwildcards

cheers
afx

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richgalloway
SplunkTrust
SplunkTrust

Perhaps [monitor:///log.*]?

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