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Access logs events showing in single line instead of multiline

priyesh
Explorer

Hi,

My access logs are showing as single event,it should show as different events.
I need each line as single event.

Example:

8/8/12
8:42:31.000 AM

10.127.77.58 - - [08/Aug/2012:04:42:31 -0400] "GET / HTTP/1.1" 500 538 "-" "OpenNMS HttpMonitor"

10.127.77.58 - - [08/Aug/2012:04:42:31 -0400] "GET / HTTP/1.1" 500 538 "-" "OpenNMS HttpMonitor"

0 Karma

Jason
Motivator

If your data source will never have multi-line events, you can set SHOULD_LINEMERGE = false in props.conf under the appropriate sourcetype, source, or host.

For example:

[openNMS]
# Properties for openNMS sourcetype
SHOULD_LINEMERGE = false

If there might be multi-line events in this source of data, you can use a combination of LINE_BREAKER to identify proper line endings or TIME_PREFIX/TIME_FORMAT/MAX_TIMESTAMP_LOOKAHEAD to identify timestamps. Splunk's default behavior is to break before a line containing a timestamp.

These are all in props.conf. http://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/latest/admin/Propsconf

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