Getting Data In

Convert Epoch using Props.conf

JScordo
Path Finder

I have events that are coming in with no timestamp except for a field "event_sec" which gives me the time in epoch format. Is there a way to use the props.conf to convert these all to the timestamp for the events? An example of the first couple fields in the event are:

rec_type=500 rec_type_simple="FILELOG EVENT" event_sec=1453991513

Where as i would like to take the event_sec field and convert it to human readable date/time using the props.conf

0 Karma
1 Solution

jbjerke_splunk
Splunk Employee
Splunk Employee

Hi

This sourcetype should have this configuration

[mysourcetype ]
SHOULD_LINEMERGE=true
NO_BINARY_CHECK=true
TIME_FORMAT=%s
TIME_PREFIX=event_sec=

You can do more formatting at search time later on.

Please mark as answered if this is what you were looking for.

j

View solution in original post

jbjerke_splunk
Splunk Employee
Splunk Employee

Hi

This sourcetype should have this configuration

[mysourcetype ]
SHOULD_LINEMERGE=true
NO_BINARY_CHECK=true
TIME_FORMAT=%s
TIME_PREFIX=event_sec=

You can do more formatting at search time later on.

Please mark as answered if this is what you were looking for.

j

Get Updates on the Splunk Community!

Building Reliable Asset and Identity Frameworks in Splunk ES

 Accurate asset and identity resolution is the backbone of security operations. Without it, alerts are ...

Cloud Monitoring Console - Unlocking Greater Visibility in SVC Usage Reporting

For Splunk Cloud customers, understanding and optimizing Splunk Virtual Compute (SVC) usage and resource ...

Automatic Discovery Part 3: Practical Use Cases

If you’ve enabled Automatic Discovery in your install of the Splunk Distribution of the OpenTelemetry ...