Getting Data In

Date Parsing

nickhills
Ultra Champion

Hello all,
We have just encountered a problem with date parsing as we have progressed into the new month.

Our log files output a date and time stamp in the following pattern:

02-07-2012 @ 12:15:23.211

This has been fine up until 1st July, wherein splunk is now parsing the above log line, as the 7th Feb, instead of 2nd of the 7th.

I have created a entry in my props.conf file for this sourcetype, and defined the following:

TIME_FORMAT = %d-%m-%Y @ %H:%M:%S.%3N

But this has not resolved the issue, is there something wrong with my Time format, and why would this only just have started (as of 1st July)

If my comment helps, please give it a thumbs up!
Tags (2)
0 Karma
1 Solution

Ayn
Legend

You have the percent sign on the wrong side. The percent signs should go before the format, so:

%d-%m-%Y @ %H:%M:%S.%3N

View solution in original post

0 Karma

Ayn
Legend

You have the percent sign on the wrong side. The percent signs should go before the format, so:

%d-%m-%Y @ %H:%M:%S.%3N
0 Karma

nickhills
Ultra Champion

In the end i solved this by changing the date format in my logs.

Whilst this did not solve my initial problem, Ayn correctly pointed out that my syntax was wrong.

If my comment helps, please give it a thumbs up!
0 Karma

nickhills
Ultra Champion

Ayn,

Sorry - thats my mistake when typing the question.
The config in use is as per your correction above, however the parsing is incorrect

If my comment helps, please give it a thumbs up!
0 Karma
Got questions? Get answers!

Join the Splunk Community Slack to learn, troubleshoot, and make connections with fellow Splunk practitioners in real time!

Meet up IRL or virtually!

Join Splunk User Groups to connect and learn in-person by region or remotely by topic or industry.

Get Updates on the Splunk Community!

Optimize AI at Scale: Must-Attend Observability Sessions at .conf26

conf26   With nearly 70 breakout sessions on the docket, the .conf26 Observability track is designed to help ...

How much can you really learn in 3 minutes?

Observability can certainly be hard to understand – there's a lot of jargon and buzzwords and it seems to ...

Event Series: The Agentic SOC: Trust Before Autonomy

AI is fundamentally changing security operations, but true progress requires more than just automation—it ...