topic Re: Timestamp format in Getting Data In

Timestamp format

Vladimir — Fri, 05 Oct 2012 11:21:42 GMT

Hi,

I have log files which have timestamp format like

04/10/2012 07:50:09 - dd/mm/yyyy HH:MM:SS

but indexer thinks it's a mm/dd instead of dd/mm. Logs are monitored by forwarder which has a props.conf

[source::E:\Logging\] 
TIME_FORMAT = %d/%m/%Y %H:%M:%S

But still nothing changed. Data with timestamp, for example 04/10/2012 I can find for April, but not for October. Any suggestions?
Splunk forwarder version - 4.3.4, splunk indexer - 4.3

Re: Timestamp format

Vladimir — Fri, 05 Oct 2012 11:24:31 GMT

and one more thing - this issue started from October only, for last months I didn't have such problem

Re: Timestamp format

echalex — Fri, 05 Oct 2012 11:28:26 GMT

The TIME_FORMAT needs to specified in your props.conf. Furthermore, it is relevant to the Splunk server that does the parsing. In other words, if your using a universal forwarder, you need to edit your props.conf on the indexer.

The alternative is to use a heavy forwarder to do parsing.

Re: Timestamp format

Vladimir — Fri, 05 Oct 2012 11:31:14 GMT

ok, got it. Will try to configure the indexer