I am new to Splunk and I am trying to understand forwarders. I ran my first test and I imported 65,000 null values with a timestamp, guid and shot over the limit.
Why not create a single user version in trial mode for a month at least I could test the forwarders without it hurting my indexing dont know if I said that right because I really dont understand what counts as a index.
Also I have years of historical data why not give us the ability to import that data over time so we dont go over the index in a given day.
Is a index a search index, a import index, a row index. Not sure.
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