Installation

Does Splunk Ingestion license count the metadata into calculation?

kristen
Explorer

When logs arrive heavyforwarder, the forwarder may add some metadata into it based on the rule.

 

For example,

1. I have Syslog forwarder keeps on writing logs into the Heavy forwarder's disk space.

2. Heavyforwarder monitor logs written into various directories, e.g. [monitor:///var/log/remote/source_type_a/*.log]

3. Heavy forwarder add the source_type and host of the log, when it is indexing.

E.g. if it is forwarding the log from /var/log/remote/source_type_a/*.log, it add the sourcetype of log as source_type_a

 

Does these meta data also count into the indexer license limit?

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gcusello
SplunkTrust
SplunkTrust

Hi @kristen,

no, license is countered on the raw log really indexed, not metedata.

In other words, if you filter your raw logs before indexing the filtered logs aren't countered.

Ciao.

Giuseppe

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