Summary
In conclusion, the Splunk UF is a software binary that does not require any license and is typically installed on the source system. The UF is lightweight and consumes fewer resources. The UF monitors and forwards the data to indexers for indexing and reads the data in a file exactly once using the fishbucket concept. Structured data such as CSV, XML, JSON, and so on can be parsed using INDEXED_EXTRACTIONS. Forwarding on the UF is configured in the outputs.conf file, which contains the indexer host and management port details.
The UF can be installed on various supported OSs and hardware specifications; we have seen its installation for both Windows (through the interactive GUI) and Linux (through the CLI/silent mode). By default, the UF is installed in /opt/splunkforwarder/ in linux environment, which is referred to via the $SPLUNK_HOME environment variable.
After that, we explored the DS, which is a Splunk Enterprise instance for managing the many forwarders in large...
