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Splunk forwarder

bellaed
Path Finder

What is splunk forwarder?
When we have to use this?
Does it need a separate license in enterprise environment?

Thank you
Bella

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ChrisG
Splunk Employee
Splunk Employee

The universal forwarder and the light forwarder are not the same thing. The full documentation topic that explains the differences between the types of forwarders is Types of forwarders in the Distributed Deployment Manual. The universal forwarder is a separate download; it is a streamlined version of Splunk that only contains the components necessary to forward data to receivers. The heavy and light forwarders are both full Splunk instances. A heavy forwarder can index data locally, but that capability is turned off by default. If you are using the indexing feature of a heavy forwarder, you must have an Enterprise license and the heavy forwarder must be part of your Enterprise license stack. It does not need a separate license. See the Forwarder license topic in the Admin Manual.

jay007ant
Explorer

In splunk , we generally use two type Forwarder:

  1. Universal Forwarder (Light Forwarder):
    • Splunk “agent” installed on non-Splunk system to gather data locally, can’t parse or index by design
    • Smallest possible hardware footprint — designed to be installed on production systems
  2. “Heavy” Forwarder:
    • Splunk instance that gathers data, parses it, and forwards it on to an indexer – no data written to disk
    • Generally works as a remote collector, intermediate forwarder, and possible data filter because they parse data, they are not recommended for production systems

About license in enterprise environment : you can get here more details

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martin_mueller
SplunkTrust
SplunkTrust

http://docs.splunk.com/Splexicon:Forwarder

No separate license, neither in free nor enterprise.

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