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What could prevent the monitoring of papercut logs?

dspencer
Engager
  • I'm collecting all other logs ie. wineventlogs, splunkd logs
  • the inputs.conf is accurate
  • the splunk user has full access to the file

 

What are some non-splunk reasons that would prevent a file from being monitored?

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marnall
Motivator

Can you search the internal index, specifically splunkd, to be sure that your configuration stanza is being parsed and that the TailingProcessor is adding a watch on the file path?

E.g.

index=_internal source="/opt/splunk/var/log/splunk/splunkd.log" <logfilename>


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