monitor

monitor

verb or noun

The act of watching a file, directory, script output, or network port for new data. The term also refers to a configured data input of the aforementioned types. When you configure a data input for an incoming data source, you are telling Splunk Enterprise to monitor the input.

For more information

In Getting Data In:

• What Splunk Enterprise can index
• Monitor files and directories
• Get data from TCP and UDP ports
• Monitor Windows Event Log data
• Monitor WMI-based data
• Monitor Active Directory