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Directory monitoring

DonDandrea
Path Finder

Is it possible to monitor a directory with Splunk? When I say monitor a directory I am not interested in the contents of the files in the directory. I am an interested in logging the filenames and timestamps of the files in the directory.

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lguinn2
Legend

Yes, the feature is called "fschange monitor" and you use it like this in inputs.conf

[fschange:<path>]

However, the feature is deprecated (although it hasn't been removed yet), so you might want to look at this
fschange deprecated, what are the options

Also, Splunk cannot do fschange and a regular monitor over the same files/directories.

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