UF installation issues

[greglousteau]

I have a syslog server running on my LAN and multiple devices logging to it. I tried installing the UF onto this host (Win 10 VM), but I'm not seeing any data appear in my Splunk Cloud Instance, nor am I getting any output from this command on the Win10 syslog host?

Any guidance would be apprecaited

C:\Program Files\SplunkUniversalForwarder\bin>splunk list monitor

C:\Program Files\SplunkUniversalForwarder\bin>

[greglousteau]

yes, I told UF to monitor the files with this command (on syslog host) but I never got any feedback output after executing the command, thats why I tried the list but it also gave no feedback/output:
splunk add monitor c:\kiwi\syslog

I think I did step 2 send data to splunk indexer. with my UF credentials file that I dloaded inside my cloud instance, yes

Not sure about step 3, the port (i forget which one) that the installer asked me for? i have to do something in the cloud instance too?

[adonio]

so it is a cloud instance?
is it the cloud trial?
can you access the search bar?
try and search index = _internal and see if there is any data from the forwarder
check how many values, the host field has

[adonio]

did you tell the forwarder to monitor the files?
did you tell the forwarder to send the data to splunk indexer?
did you enable inputs (open ports) on your indexer?