Monitoring Splunk

Daily Index

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Good day, I'm new to Splunk and I just want to know is it possible to create daily indexes on Splunk, if yes how do I create them? Regards, Learnmore

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There is no built-in way to do that.  You may be able to cobble something together, but it will require at least one restart of Splunk and won't be supported.

Indexes are already time-sequenced so why do you need a different index for each day?  What problem are you trying to solve?

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