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?
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