Hello, In one of the windows machine logs (path: C:\servicedesk\logs) sending via the universal forwarder to Splunk. So I created inputs.conf and below are the monitor paths, so now am getting l...
I have this in my inputs.conf
_whitelist=(\.log|log$|^messages|^secure|mesg$|cron$|acpid$|\.out)
Can anyone help me understand what are the " ^ " and the " $ " are used for?
I have a host that I am receiving logs into my heavy forwarder and that works fine. I now have a new log source on the same host and the entry in my inputs.conf is not passing the data I need t...
...hey talk about modifying the file "props.conf" and "transforms.conf" what is the difference between doing it from inputs.conf and the other way? inputs.log [monitor:///folder/folder/folder/i...
Hi I have a basic questions about the inputs.conf file In our apps, we have a inputs.conf file under etc/apps/test/inputs.conf what is normal But what is the difference between etc/system/l...
Hi Splunkers, I have a problem with a blacklist filter. On customer's UF, we filtered out some events changing the inputs.conf file. The ones based on comma separated list, like Windows EventID, a...
I'm working on an input.conf from a universal forwarder when I noticed the first stanza is missing a ] ex: [WinEventLog://Application instead of [WinEventLog://Application] Since I d...
Im a splunk admin and I got asked to update the inputs.conf file for the app pingfederate. Im a little unsure of how to do it and I figured id ask here instead of bricking our prod system. T...
Anyone know why 5.0.1 UFs are reporting data in with host name of $decideonstartup. Looks like this setting was added in 5.0 for the inputs.conf file and the default for system/default/inputs.conf....
Hello, I have made a new app under deployment apps with the following inputs.conf [monitor:///root/something/something/something/something/]
index = test
whitelist=console-202[\S\s...