https://community.splunk.com/t5/Getting-Data-In/multiple-breaks/m-p/22033#M3342 <P>Is there a way to break by timestamp and by a pattern? Some of my lines have a timestamp and the timestamp filtering works for them, but globs my non-timestamp lines together. Other lines have a common pattern and using BREAK_ONLY_BEFORE works for them, but globs the timestamp lines together. I need to have my cake and eat it too and would like to be able to filter by both.</P> Mon, 28 Sep 2020 12:10:32 GMT akarandjeff 2020-09-28T12:10:32Z https://community.splunk.com/t5/Getting-Data-In/multiple-breaks/m-p/22033#M3342 <P>Is there a way to break by timestamp and by a pattern? Some of my lines have a timestamp and the timestamp filtering works for them, but globs my non-timestamp lines together. Other lines have a common pattern and using BREAK_ONLY_BEFORE works for them, but globs the timestamp lines together. I need to have my cake and eat it too and would like to be able to filter by both.</P> Mon, 28 Sep 2020 12:10:32 GMT https://community.splunk.com/t5/Getting-Data-In/multiple-breaks/m-p/22033#M3342 akarandjeff 2020-09-28T12:10:32Z https://community.splunk.com/t5/Getting-Data-In/multiple-breaks/m-p/22034#M3343 <P>If your goal is for each line to be indexed as one event, you can simply specify:</P> <PRE><CODE>SHOULD_LINEMERGE = false </CODE></PRE> <P>If you want to event-break on time stamps and on another pattern, a simple way to do this is to define BREAK_ONLY_BEFORE with two patterns:</P> <PRE><CODE>BREAK_ONLY_BEFORE = (pattern1|pattern2) </CODE></PRE> <P>...where pattern1 matches your time stamps and pattern2 matches the other desired event-breaking string.</P> Mon, 28 Sep 2020 12:10:37 GMT https://community.splunk.com/t5/Getting-Data-In/multiple-breaks/m-p/22034#M3343 hexx 2020-09-28T12:10:37Z