Getting Data In

duplicate data indexing

shivanandbm
Explorer

i see duplicate data getting indexed.its impacting license. can you please suggest how i can fix this.below is the monitoring .
[monitor:///incoming/XXXXX/XXXX/XXXXX.gz]
disabled = false

whitelist = ..gz

index = XXXXX
sourcetype = XXXX
EVENT_BREAK_ENABLE=true

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MuS
SplunkTrust
SplunkTrust

Please add your outputs.conf to this post.

cheers, MuS

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sathwikr076
Communicator

Hi, How many indexers you have and how you are confirming that the duplicate data is ingesting. If those duplicate logs are from same application servers and exactly same in format, Splunk is smart enough to drop the duplicate logs.

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