How to check if a windows/unix server is reporting to splunk?

[bsuresh1]

Hi Guys,

I am completely new to Splunk. Finding ways to learn as much quickly. Please help me out.

Question:
How to check if a windows/unix server is reporting to splunk? - I am aware if a Forwarder is installed on client server, then it will contact splunk servers. But I want to make sure if the forwarder is actively communicating with splunk servers? Can we see a list of servers which are reporting to Splunk on a glance?

[Yasaswy]

Hi,
You should be able to lookup all data received from forwaders by querying the internal index...

index=_internal metrics  group=per_host_thruput earliest=@d

above should give you all data received from hosts for the day. If you are using a deployment sever you can see all the clients phoning in under settings->forwarder management.