Monitoring Splunk

splunk search head

Siddharthnegi
Contributor

Can i monitor a file in search head?

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gcusello
SplunkTrust
SplunkTrust

Hi @Siddharthnegi,

yes, it's unusual (usual logs are read by Universal or Heavy Forwarders), but it's possible.

Remember that anyway, it's a best practice to forward all SH logs to the Indexers, so for this reason it's possible.

Ciao.

Giuseppe

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Siddharthnegi
Contributor

thanks for the reply can you tell me how can i do that

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