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duplicate feed = duplicate events?

a212830
Champion

Hi,

I have syslog messages being sent to two different servers. Each server should receive the same events. If the configuration is the same, will I receive 2 events for each syslog entry, or will Splunk make some effort to deduplicate them?

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Ayn
Legend

You will get 2 events - both indexers will faithfully index the data that is sent to them.

piebob
Splunk Employee
Splunk Employee

you can however use the 'dedup' command when searching if you actually have to index the events twice.

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