What's the purpose of the forwarder's license?

[ddrillic]

Not clear about it - what's the purpose of the forwarder's license?
We have a fairly large Splunk implementation, and we never used it. So, I wonder.

[ChrisG]

You can read about it here: http://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/7.0.3/Admin/TypesofSplunklicenses#Forwarder_license

[tiagofbmm · Accepted solution]

Forwarder license
This license allows forwarding (but not indexing) of unlimited data, and also enables security on the instance so that users must supply username and password to access it. (The free license can also be used to forward an unlimited amount of data, but has no security.)

Forwarder licenses are included with Splunk; you do not have to purchase them separately.