Another option would be to use the splunk java logging framework. Drop in the jar file, add the stanza to your logback.conf and you're all set! http://dev.splunk.com/view/splunk-logging-java/SP-CAAAE2K ... View more

Since this was one of the first answers on a Google Search, I figured I'd add this: https://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/CoE/current/Handbook/Naming ... View more

Hello, Did you ever resolve this? This is very similar to what I'm trying to do, and I'm having issues as well. I'm not able to get data into splunk at all. Yet, I'm not able to find any errors logged anywhere. -James ... View more

MuS, thanks for replying! You are correct, it's not directly a splunk question, but since it is the suggested way to get linux metrics into splunk, I thought I'd ask here. On RHEL 7.5 running collectd 5.8.0, collectd -t and collectd -T return fine. -h tells me the default config file is /etc/collectd.conf I've looked at that bug you linked, so I un-commented the interval line in /etc/collectd.conf, and set it to 300. (As it is set to 10 by default) I've grep'd Interval in /etc/collectd.conf and /etc/collectd.d/* and looked for any other Interval settings that could override it, and there aren't any. I do know it's using the correct config file, because all of my plugins are being loaded! I'm leaning towards it's a bug in RedHat's release of collectd. I've got a ticket open with them. I'll update here. ... View more