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file and folder monitoring NOT indexing

cpuppet
Path Finder

I know many people had asked this questions, but I still can't seem to find a good way to solve this problem

I have setup my splunk to monitor several folders
this my inputs.conf sample
[monitor:///opt/splunk/etc/apps/app_name/logs/folder/logfile*]
index = myindex
sourcetype = my.log

I even put crcSalt = to try
but it is still not indexing my logs correctly
and when i look at the data inputs monitoring page
http://localhost:8000/en-US/manager/app_name/data/inputs/monitor

I found that the number of file counts are incorrect

anyone!!! please enlighten me

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kristian_kolb
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Hi, I don't know if your inputs.conf above is just an example, or the actual configuration. If the latter is the case... well you cannot monitor files under /opt/splunk/etc, since they are automatically watched over by fschange and, (as you may remember from the documentation on inputs.conf) you can't use fschange and monitor on the same files/directories.

See the documentation for inputs.conf
http://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/latest/Admin/Inputsconf

hope this helps,

Kristian

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kristian_kolb
Ultra Champion

Hi, I don't know if your inputs.conf above is just an example, or the actual configuration. If the latter is the case... well you cannot monitor files under /opt/splunk/etc, since they are automatically watched over by fschange and, (as you may remember from the documentation on inputs.conf) you can't use fschange and monitor on the same files/directories.

See the documentation for inputs.conf
http://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/latest/Admin/Inputsconf

hope this helps,

Kristian

cpuppet
Path Finder

it was an example, but i think i found the problem.
thanks a lot for the info shared

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