I know this is an old thread, but since a google search led me to it, others will probably read it too. This solution is defined in this other article: https://community.splunk.com/t5/All-Apps-and-Add-ons/Cisco-eStreamer-eNcore-delay-in-logs-getting-to-Splunk/m-p/464251 TL;DR (or in case the URL above breaks), by default eStreamer only picks up events if there are 100 or more to collect. On low-volume systems, this could be an issue, so there is a batchSize parameter to adjust. The end of my estreamer.conf now has this added line at the end: "workerProcesses": 4, "batchSize": 5 }
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