Getting Data In

Why a specific sourcetype is not forwarding on a server while everything else is?

akhil36109
New Member

Permissions are there for the log file and no errors in the splunkd.log.
Everything seems to be working fine and everything is running as we can see that the data is forwarded at this moment. The only problem is that the specific data is not shown on the indexer, it was coming before but it stopped a few days ago.
What could be the problem?

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kburtch
New Member

Has this issue ever been resolved?  I am facing a very similar issue.

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isoutamo
SplunkTrust
SplunkTrust
Can you create a new question with proper and enough information, so we could better help you?
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somesoni2
Revered Legend

Try running /opt/splunk/bin/splunk list monitor and see if your files/directory show up in there. Try searching splunkd.log from the forwarder with keyword as your file name (e.g. index=_internal sourcetype=splunkd host=YourHost *yourfilename*) and see if there are any warning of some sorts.

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akhil36109
New Member

index=_internal sourcetype=splunk host=YourHost yourfilename

where shd i run this sir ?? in forwarder or indexer ??

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akhil36109
New Member

sourcetype=splunk or sourcetype=the sourcetype which is not getting forwarded

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akhil36109
New Member

I got it sir ,sorry for silly question! i wil run them and give u the results !

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akhil36109
New Member

Hello Sir , no errors of any sort !
what to do now

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somesoni2
Revered Legend

Firstly, I had a typo in the search, just corrected it (sourcetype to be searched is splunk*d*).

Assuming your forwarder _internal logs from the forwarder to your indexers, this search should be run from your search head.

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