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Splunk DB Connect: How to change the interval of batch processing?

websolut
New Member

We have set up DB connect and DB inputs. We query databases and .dbmonevt files are created. The problem is that they are indexed with a delay of 20-30 minutes. We tried to add interval = 60 to [batch] in local inputs.conf but no luck.

How to change interval of batch processing?

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jcoates_splunk
Splunk Employee
Splunk Employee

I think you're missing the unit size on there, not sure that DBX 1.1.x will figure that out. http://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/DBX/1.1.7/DeployDBX/Configuredatabasemonitoring#Specify_input_q...

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