Hi, I am working at a corporation,  using Splunk on my browsers.  I have installed the windows forwarder and configured my user name and the Splunk server (client side).  I used the URL and the port number from the browser URL of the corporate Splunk server.. Now I want to be able to send lab data to Splunk, I don't want to monitor anything on the windows system.  The PC is just a means to run a script that can collect data from some instruments. I was thinking the forwarder would allow me to then use some types of commands within my script (Python) to send data.  I cold write to a file, but would prefer to send data live with some kind of command. How can this be done, is there a specific documentation for this type of activity? Maybe I need to write to a file, let the forwarder monitor that file, and continuously overwrite that file, assuming the forwarder would look at the like on some sort of periodic basis, like 20s or 60s. I would appreciate any general guidance on this, especially if there is documentation to use 🙂 ... View more