till now we have been using putty tool to analyze logs locally in windows , but it is very tedious process to check all logs for every exception and it takes all day due continues generation of logs , now we find splunk and check once by using log files (csv) which we have copied from linux server, results are very satisfying . but now the problem is , we are not able to figure out how to configure splunk . so that it takes logs on real time without any human interpretation , and generate alert/ report/ dashboards , any help/suggestion would be appreciated and we are really looking forward to use splunk as our solely solution for log monitoring.
Hi laxmikants,
best practice is to use an universal forwarder on the source server which produces the logs and forward them into your Splunk server.
Start at the docs http://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/latest/SearchTutorial/AboutgettingdataintoSplunk and work it through - Part 7 is about creating dashboards.
hope this helps ...
cheers, MuS
you can use universal forwarder and send files data to splunk indexer
http://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/6.1.4/Forwarding/Setupforwardingandreceiving
Hi laxmikants,
best practice is to use an universal forwarder on the source server which produces the logs and forward them into your Splunk server.
Start at the docs http://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/latest/SearchTutorial/AboutgettingdataintoSplunk and work it through - Part 7 is about creating dashboards.
hope this helps ...
cheers, MuS