monitor

verb or noun

The act of watching a file, directory, script, or network port for new data. Also used to refer to a configured Splunk data input of the aforementioned types. When you configure a data input for an ongoing incoming data source, you are telling Splunk to monitor the input.

For more information

In the Getting Data In Manual:

configuration

configuration file

event processing

character set encoding

segmentation

segment

timestamping

timestamp, timezone offset

default field extraction

host, source, source type, punct


archiving

retention time