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What are some best practices for Splunk universal forwarder?

gunnist
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My Splunk Forwarder inputs.conf looks like this:

[batch://C:\Splunk\MyApi\Local\Api\*.json]
index = myapi_local
move_policy = sinkhole
disabled = 0
source = myapi
sourcetype = Api

 

My logging files are generating every second . Is that perhaps a little bit too excessive? What's the best practice in using the Forwarder?

File name examples:

MyAPI_2022-12-08 23-06-28.json

MyAPI_2022-12-08 23-06-29.json

...

Thanks! 🙂

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