Monitoring Splunk

reindex the log files into new index

rashid47010
Communicator

i created new index and I want to load log files into that index. these files were previously indexed to another index.

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woodcock
Esteemed Legend

You can change the name of an index by shutting down the indexer and changing the indexes.conf and renaming the directory (yes, it really is that easy).

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ddrillic
Ultra Champion

Maybe you can rename the index? at Is it possible to change an index name?

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woodcock
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