Hello, I need to check to see if Syslog data is reaching my forwarders. What would be the best query to use to check this?
As per my understanding for syslog server logs monitoring, you have to install a Splunk UF agent on syslog server and perform "file & folder monitoring" (to the logs which you want to onboard into Splunk).
Within input.conf you define logs details like
index = XYZ
sourcetype= ABC
if your logs are reporting to Splunk, you can check it by
| tstats count where index=ZYX sourcetype=ABC by sourcetype _time
|timechart sum(count) as count by sourcetype
As per my understanding for syslog server logs monitoring, you have to install a Splunk UF agent on syslog server and perform "file & folder monitoring" (to the logs which you want to onboard into Splunk).
Within input.conf you define logs details like
index = XYZ
sourcetype= ABC
if your logs are reporting to Splunk, you can check it by
| tstats count where index=ZYX sourcetype=ABC by sourcetype _time
|timechart sum(count) as count by sourcetype
Hi @itsmevic,
you can run a simple search on the index where you store the logs that you ingest with that input from your syslog.
You can recognize them using the host field.
in other words:
index=your_index host=your_host
Ciao.
Giuseppe