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how to sett forwarers to index on path and file name

jbirchall1
New Member

Is it possible to set up forwarders to index data on the path of the file and a portion of the file name automatically.

Ie

/home/info/data/logs/"cluster"/host1.type1.log
/home/info/data/logs/"cluster"/host2.type2.log

The setup should automatically forward any files under /home/info/data/logs and add indexes for the "cluster" and the host? Any pointers in the right direction would be helpfull

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jbsplunk
Splunk Employee
Splunk Employee

You'd need to set up props/transforms where the data is being parsed(heavy forwarder/Indexer) to route data to specific indexes based on a regex:

http://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/latest/admin/Setupmultipleindexes#Route_specific_events_...

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jbirchall1
New Member

Thanks for that pointer, but I am not sure that is what I was really asking. The logs all go into one index but have the extra tags for cluster and host added by the forwarder.

I could set up forwarders for each "log type". These should be able to add tags for the cluster and host and read all files of that log type under /home/info/data/logs/*/.

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