Monitoring Splunk

Why am I getting this error?

karu0711
Communicator
  • 02-10-2022 09:00:35.120 -0500 INFO TailingProcessor [5728 MainTailingThread] - Adding watch on path: C:\.
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richgalloway
SplunkTrust
SplunkTrust

That's not an error.  It's an informational message saying Splunk is monitoring the given file path for files to be ingested.  Monitoring the root directory probably is not desired (especially recursively).  Check your inputs.conf files to make sure the monitor stanza names are correct.

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