Great thanks I'll try it ... View more

Bhiley, Yes, there are limits in splunk, which you may be hitting up against. See, in your search you are telling Splunk to RETURN all of this data and not just count it. Splunk has many analytic features, such as "stats" that have arguments like count. You probably want to do something like this: search = index=tal | stats count If you want to be sure to just run this for the previous day you can use the timepicker in the search or do this: search = index=tal earliest=-24h@h latest=@d-1s | stats count If you had multiple indexes you can do ... | stats count by index Find more about stats here: http://www.splunk.com/base/Documentation/latest/SearchReference/stats Best, Sean ... View more

I'll try the suggestion above but I suspect that the variable number of fields in each record type will not allow a consistent regex match ... View more

The receiving Splunk doesn't know what is being sent, it only processes events it receives over the port configured as an input for the receiver. I am not exactly sure what you are trying to determine, but depending on the type of forwarder you are using, sourcetypes may not be possible to configure. On both the universal and lightweight forwarder, you cannot set sourcetype. This is done where the data is parsed, on the receiver. The search summary page should give you a pretty good indication about the number of sourcetypes that have been seen on the indexer. ... View more

Seems slightly counter-intuitive to me to index before you parse but then I'm a newbie with Splunk. Your method certainly speeds up the search hugely. Many thanks. ... View more