Getting Data In

Multiple index locations for forwarder

aaronkorn
Splunk Employee
Splunk Employee

Is there a way on the universal forwarder to send different data types to different indexers? For example, we want to send logA to indexerA and logB to indexerB from the same system where the universal forwarder is installed.

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Ayn
Legend

Yes. Just specify index=theindexyouwanttouse in the monitor in inputs.conf.

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Ayn
Legend

My apologies, I missed that 'r' in 'indexers' 🙂

In that case my answer would be no. You could do that with a Splunk instance that performs parsing, but Universal Forwarders don't do that.

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aaronkorn
Splunk Employee
Splunk Employee

But the different indexes reside on different servers.

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