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Calling 3rd party script at index or search time

jcbrendsel
Path Finder

Hi,

We use a 3rd party python library (ua_parser) that does a great job of parsing the myriad useragents that hit our site.

Is it possible to call such a library at either index or search time?

Obviously performance might be an issue, but I wanted to at least see if it was possible.

thanks.

Jon.

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Ayn
Legend

Index-time, no. Luckily, as it would have horrible performane implications 😉

Search-time, certainly. Set up a script that serves as a dynamic lookup. More information in the docs here: http://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/latest/Knowledge/Addfieldsfromexternaldatasources#Set_up...

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