Monitoring Splunk

not monitored similer name local files on windows

dhirendra761
Contributor

My logs files are having named as "xxxx*.log.2018-06-27, xxxx*.log.2018-06-26, xxxx*.log.2018....."
it differntiate with date when it was genrated.
Now i want to monitor the directory for log files.
when i search for the log in directory using splunk, the source count is only 1. It takes only 1file for search.

All log files having different contents. So I am not able to search for whole log files.
Please suggest in this case.

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woodcock
Esteemed Legend

Try this:

[monitor://D:\Splunk\Logs\*\dd\*.log]
disabled = false
sourcetype = dd
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dhirendra761
Contributor

Thanks for input.
But It doesn't work. If you rename the log files with different name then it work and available for the search.

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sudosplunk
Motivator

Modify your monitor stanza to below:

[monitor://D:\Splunk\Logs\uVisit\dd\Visit*.log*]
disabled = false
sourcetype = dd

OR

[monitor://D:\Splunk\Logs\uVisit\dd]
disabled = false
whitelist = \.log\.\d+|\.log$
sourcetype = dd
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dhirendra761
Contributor

Thanks for input.
But It doesn't work. If you rename the log files with different name then it work and available for the search.

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sudosplunk
Motivator

For the .log.date files, file type is not Text document. Can you open and read the files with date extension. If yes, then above monitor stanza should work as it is using *.log* which matches all files under dd directory.

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renjith_nair
Legend

@dhirendra761 , hows your inputs.conf configured?

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dhirendra761
Contributor

I will share the links for file directory which i used currently.

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dhirendra761
Contributor

@renjith.nair Hi Renjith,
input.conf is configured as below:
[monitor://D:\Splunk\Logs\uVisit\dd]
disabled = false
sourcetype = dd

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