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DateParserVerbose - Failed to parse timestamp in first MAX_TIMESTAMP_LOOKAHEAD (50) characters of event

firefox95
Explorer

Hi All,

I've deployed below props to splunk SHC and IDX clusters but fields are not extracted in splunk. There are WARN messages in splunkd logs as follows DateParserVerbose - Failed to parse timestamp in first MAX_TIMESTAMP_LOOKAHEAD (50) characters of event. Defaulting to timestamp of previous event (Thu Jan 21 14:02:33 2016). 

Can you please help and let me know if i need to make any changes?

 

[props]

TIME_PREFIX=^

TIME_FORMAT=%d-%b-%Y %I.%M.%S.%6Q %p

MAX_TIMESTAMP_LOOKAHEAD=50

SHOULD_LINEMERGE=false

NO_BINARY_CHECK=true

LINE_BREAKER=([\r\n])\d+\-\w+\-\d+\s+\d+\.\d+\.\d+\.\d+\s+\w+\s

EXTRACT-field1=regex

EXTRACT-field2=regex

 

Sample events:

29-APR-21 09.44.57.234427 AM ,TEST , 11,Login ,2098856,4

29-APR-21 09.44.56.234428 AM ,TEST , 12,Login ,2098856,4

 

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richgalloway
SplunkTrust
SplunkTrust

Use lower-case "y" for two-digit years.

TIME_FORMAT=%d-%b-%y %I.%M.%S.%6Q %p
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richgalloway
SplunkTrust
SplunkTrust

Use lower-case "y" for two-digit years.

TIME_FORMAT=%d-%b-%y %I.%M.%S.%6Q %p
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firefox95
Explorer

Thank you!! I made changes to Time_Format and corrected MAX_TIMESTAMP_LOOKAHEAD=30 instead of 50 and it worked. 

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