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Why am I only getting 3 days worth of logs?

carlyleadmin
Contributor

Hi,

i am monitoring IIS logs for my environment and i want to ignore the older log files.i just want the files for the last 3 days.
here is my inputs.conf

[monitor://C:\inetpub\logs\LogFiles\W3SVC2]
disabled=false
index=fam
sourcetype=ms:iis:auto
ignoreOlderThan=2d

attached are the screenshot for the log file location and output for the list monitoralt text

Any help is appreciated

Thanks

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micahkemp
Champion

It's likely your configuration is working as expected.

./bin/splunk list monitor will still show the files as being monitored, but that doesn't indicate they will be indexed. Have you searched your indexed data to ensure the old data hasn't actually been ignored?

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micahkemp
Champion

It's likely your configuration is working as expected.

./bin/splunk list monitor will still show the files as being monitored, but that doesn't indicate they will be indexed. Have you searched your indexed data to ensure the old data hasn't actually been ignored?

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carlyleadmin
Contributor

Thanks for the quick response as a matter of fact i don't have data older than 4 days.Thanks MicahKemp

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