How can I tell where data is coming from? I have inherited an old Splunk 5.0.1 Enterprise Infrastructure. I can see data on the Splunk head for a specific (IP) server, however, this data is coming into _main. I got on the Windows box where this data is coming from and I could not see a universal forwarder or syslog implementation despite much searching. I do not know how the data is coming into Splunk, which is a problem since I need the data to go into a different index. This leaves me asking, how is the data coming in? Is there a way to trace events all the way back to the origination point AND know what the path that the data took? I there a way to know what process originated the data on the machine?
I'd check a few things:
index=_internal source=*metrics.log* group=tcpin_connections
for info around incoming forwarder connectionsTRANSFORMS-foo
in props.conf)index=_internal source=*metrics.log* thruput
for clues where the indexer thinks it has throughput