Getting Data In

Splunk Routing to Non-Indexing Queue

DanMelar
New Member

Within Splunk, is there a way to route data to a queue that doesn't index. If so, could you turn on the ability to index that data if needed? I have a large amount of data coming in (100+GB Per Day) but have a very small license. Can this routing be done via the Splunk Server and not with a heavy forwarder?

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DanMelar
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I would not like to 'drop' the events, rather keep them and not index them.

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yannK
Splunk Employee
Splunk Employee

Do not route to a non existing queue, it will simply block your indexer once full.

But you can route to the nullQueue to drop events.
http://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/5.0.3/Deploy/Routeandfilterdatad#Discard_specific_events...

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DanMelar
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I would not like to 'drop' the events, rather keep them and not index them.

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bmacias84
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