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Universal forwarder for local logs monitoring

kalyan415
New Member

Hi,

I currently installed splunk on linux machine and I wanted to monitor the logs on the same machine. Should I use the universal forwarder, to monitor the logs on the same machine to get the best performance.

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sdaniels
Splunk Employee
Splunk Employee

Best to use the Splunk install you have on that server rather than put a forwarder. The splunk install has the forwarder built in and you can follow the UI to set up your file monitoring for that server.

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