topic Re: If we have multiple logs from various web applications with different key value pairs and different formats how can we extract different information from each type of log in Getting Data In https://community.splunk.com/t5/Getting-Data-In/If-we-have-multiple-logs-from-various-web-applications-with/m-p/268253#M51480 <P>Try <A href="http://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/latest/Data/Whysourcetypesmatter">here</A></P> Tue, 24 May 2016 22:31:11 GMT dolivasoh 2016-05-24T22:31:11Z If we have multiple logs from various web applications with different key value pairs and different formats how can we extract different information from each type of log https://community.splunk.com/t5/Getting-Data-In/If-we-have-multiple-logs-from-various-web-applications-with/m-p/268252#M51479 <P>I do not understand how the indexing in splunk works, if there are multiple types of log files and we want only certain data from each one how can we specify it will we have to set up indexes for each type and assign them by type in our inputs.conf.</P> <P>1.) Can someone explain what to do in this situation at a high level?</P> Tue, 24 May 2016 16:34:35 GMT https://community.splunk.com/t5/Getting-Data-In/If-we-have-multiple-logs-from-various-web-applications-with/m-p/268252#M51479 ac123 2016-05-24T16:34:35Z Re: If we have multiple logs from various web applications with different key value pairs and different formats how can we extract different information from each type of log https://community.splunk.com/t5/Getting-Data-In/If-we-have-multiple-logs-from-various-web-applications-with/m-p/268253#M51480 <P>Try <A href="http://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/latest/Data/Whysourcetypesmatter">here</A></P> Tue, 24 May 2016 22:31:11 GMT https://community.splunk.com/t5/Getting-Data-In/If-we-have-multiple-logs-from-various-web-applications-with/m-p/268253#M51480 dolivasoh 2016-05-24T22:31:11Z