Splunk · Schema

MonitorInput

AnalyticsData AnalysisLoggingMachine DataMonitoringObservabilityPlatformSecuritySIEM

Properties

Name Type Description
name string The monitored file or directory path
content object
View JSON Schema on GitHub

JSON Schema

splunk-monitorinput-schema.json Raw ↑
{
  "$schema": "https://json-schema.org/draft/2020-12/schema",
  "$id": "#/components/schemas/MonitorInput",
  "title": "MonitorInput",
  "type": "object",
  "properties": {
    "name": {
      "type": "string",
      "description": "The monitored file or directory path",
      "example": "Example Title"
    },
    "content": {
      "type": "object",
      "properties": {
        "index": {
          "type": "string",
          "description": "Destination index for the monitored data",
          "default": "default"
        },
        "sourcetype": {
          "type": "string",
          "description": "Source type assigned to the monitored data"
        },
        "source": {
          "type": "string",
          "description": "Source value assigned to the monitored data"
        },
        "host": {
          "type": "string",
          "description": "Host value assigned to the monitored data"
        },
        "disabled": {
          "type": "boolean",
          "description": "Whether the monitor input is disabled"
        },
        "followTail": {
          "type": "boolean",
          "description": "If true, monitoring starts at the end of file. If false, monitoring starts from the beginning."
        },
        "recursive": {
          "type": "boolean",
          "description": "Whether to recursively monitor subdirectories"
        },
        "whitelist": {
          "type": "string",
          "description": "Regex pattern for files to include"
        },
        "blacklist": {
          "type": "string",
          "description": "Regex pattern for files to exclude"
        },
        "crcSalt": {
          "type": "string",
          "description": "String to add to the CRC calculation"
        },
        "ignoreOlderThan": {
          "type": "string",
          "description": "Time modifier to skip files that have not been modified within the specified time"
        }
      },
      "example": "example_value"
    }
  }
}

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