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Prevent splunk from collecting its own access logs on servers and PCs

katiasolmi
New Member

Hi,
I'm evaluating Splunk Enterprise for servers and PCs access logs archiving; as far as I can see Splunk creates its own access logs on machines but I won't archive them.

How prevent splunk from collecting its own access logs on servers and PCs?

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niketn
Legend

@katiasolmi Splunk's _internal logs do not charge against License. Is there any other reason for Stopping Splunk's _internal logs?

[Update]
Adding documentation: https://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/latest/Admin/Aboutlicenseviolations

Internal indexes (for example,
_internal and _introspection) do not count against your license volume.

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katiasolmi
New Member

It was just for license. Are you sure they're not charged for daily MB limit?

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WalshyB
Path Finder

yes, they are definitely not part of license usage

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