topic Re: Help with setting index and sourcetype via transforms.conf in Getting Data In

Help with setting index and sourcetype via transforms.conf

a212830 — Tue, 29 Sep 2020 18:55:40 GMT

Hi,

I want to override the "unknown" index that some of my syslog messages are coming in as, using props and transforms. The index part is working, but the sourcetype is not setting. Not sure what I'm doing wrong... if someone can take a look, I'd appreciate it.

props.conf:
[unknown]
KV_MODE=auto
ANNOTATE_PUNCT=false
MAX_TIMESTAMP_LOOKAHEAD = 50
TRANSFORMS-set = ciscoIOS_index_parser,ciscoIOS_sourcetype_parser

transforms.conf:

[ciscoIOS_index_parser]
REGEX = %[A-Z_]+-[0-9]-[A-Z_]+:
DEST_KEY = _MetaData:Index
FORMAT = cisco

[ciscoIOS_sourcetype_parser]
REGEX = %[A-Z_]+-[0-9]-[A-Z_]+:
DEST_KEY = _MetaData:Sourcetype
FORMAT = sourcetype::cisco:ios

Re: Help with setting index and sourcetype via transforms.conf

FrankVl — Tue, 10 Apr 2018 14:27:33 GMT

Should be DEST_KEY = MetaData:Sourcetype without the _.

Re: Help with setting index and sourcetype via transforms.conf

sloshburch — Fri, 27 Apr 2018 12:15:18 GMT

Cross reference to a related question (I think): https://answers.splunk.com/answers/637913/help-with-syslog-tranformsprops.html