We have a single data simulator sending records to a socket, and a Splunk instance on a different server using that data. Can we have additional Splunk instances using that same data?
I have multiple Splunk instances, but not in this case. Here, I'm only thinking of piggy-backing this particular instance on the data input used by one of the others I have running.
Yes you can.
Use the forwarder outputs.conf to send data to additional Splunk Indexers below to different environments.
[tcpout:1st Indexername]
disabled = false
server = IPAdressof1stindexer:port
[tcpout:2ndIndexeer]
disabled = false
server =IPof2ndIndexer:portNo
Do you have multiple Splunk environments??