Getting Data In

RegMon Error

AaronMoorcroft
Communicator

Any ideas how to resolve this one guys ?

I'm getting 1 error every min

ERROR ExecProcessor - message from ""C:\Program Files\SplunkUniversalForwarder\bin\splunk-regmon.exe"" splunk-regmon - WinRegistryMonitor::configure: Failed to get configuration settings: 'Regex: unrecognized character follows \'

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wcolgate_splunk
Splunk Employee
Splunk Employee

There is something in your inputs.conf file that is a bad regex. Can you post your inputs.conf?

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