What happens if a large log file being monitored hasn't fully been forwarded at the time of rotation?

[pkeller]

If I'm monitoring a very large logfile

[monitor:///home/me/logs]
whitelist = (myApp)\.log$

/home/me/logs/myApp.log

And at some point, a process rotates the file to:

/home/me/logs/OLD/myApp.log

If the file hasn't fully been forwarded at the time of rotation ... will:

1. myApp.log be monitored in the new directory (assumed because OLD would be in scope for the monitored path)
2. myApp.log be monitored in its entirety, or will Splunk still know the offset that was last indexed

Thank you.

If

[hortonew · Accepted solution]

Splunk keeps track of the offset via the fishbucket. Even if the file is moved, it should only index what it hasn't already indexed. So moving it to a different directory shouldn't be a problem.