Getting Data In

where can i see in the splunk internal logs when a forwarder successfully started forwarding the data?

pavanae
Builder

Is there any specific search that i can pull out the connection established time and date?

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inventsekar
SplunkTrust
SplunkTrust

Tcp_connection group event will be written to _internal index, when a UF connects to an indexer.
List of Forwarders that have connected in the last 3 minutes:

index=_internal group="tcpin_connections" startminutesago=3 | stats count(sourceHost) by sourceHost
thanks and best regards,
Sekar

PS - If this or any post helped you in any way, pls consider upvoting, thanks for reading !

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inventsekar
SplunkTrust
SplunkTrust

Tcp_connection group event will be written to _internal index, when a UF connects to an indexer.
List of Forwarders that have connected in the last 3 minutes:

index=_internal group="tcpin_connections" startminutesago=3 | stats count(sourceHost) by sourceHost
thanks and best regards,
Sekar

PS - If this or any post helped you in any way, pls consider upvoting, thanks for reading !
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