We allowed our Splunk Light license to expire and moved to another logging solution. We would like to export the data Splunk has collected over the past year into something we can either import or at least read with a text editor or pipe into a tail command. I've seen other answers like this one: https://answers.splunk.com/answers/43442/how-to-export-logs-to-excel-or-text-file.html?utm_source=typeahead&utm_medium=newquestion&utm_campaign=no_votes_sort_relev
However, we cannot do any searches as it says we have exceeded our license. We have nothing sending logs to Splunk Light, but the customer service person I just spoke to basically said unless we pay for a license, all that data is locked away.
Are there any ways around this? I'm not telling my CTO to pay 5 grand just so we can access our own logs. Again, I'm not looking to cheat the indexing system, I just want to take my ball and go home.
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