Getting Data In

Event Breaking Incorrectly

whunterj
Explorer

I am setting up a monitor on the log file for my Dolphin Gamecube emulator. Dolphin and Splunk Enterprise are both running locally on my machine (Windows 11). Splunk is ingesting multiple lines per event, and my hope is to get each line to ingest as a separate event. I have tried all kinds of different props.conf configurations including SHOULD_LINEMERGE, LINE_BREAKER, BREAK_ONLY_BEFORE, etc. I'll paste a sample of the log file below. In this example, Splunk is ingesting lines 1 & 2 as an event, and then 3 & 4 as an event. When I turn on more verbose logging, it will lump even more lines into an event, sometimes 10+

21:23:310 Common\FileUtil.cpp:796 I[COMMON]: CreateSysDirectoryPath: Setting to C:\Users\whjar\mnt\file-system\opt\dolphin\dolphin-2409-x64\Dolphin-x64/Sys/
21:23:323 DolphinQt\Translation.cpp:155 W[COMMON]: Error reading MO file 'C:\Users\whjar\mnt\file-system\opt\dolphin\dolphin-2409-x64\Dolphin-x64/Languages/en_US.mo'
21:24:906 UICommon\AutoUpdate.cpp:212 I[COMMON]: Auto-update JSON response: {"status": "up-to-date"}
21:24:906 UICommon\AutoUpdate.cpp:227 I[COMMON]: Auto-update status: we are up to date.

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richgalloway
SplunkTrust
SplunkTrust

Try these props.conf settings.

[dolphin]
SHOULD_LINEMERGE = false
LINE_BREAKER = ([\r\n]+)\d\d:\d\d:\d\d\d
DATETIME_CONFIG = current
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If this reply helps you, Karma would be appreciated.

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richgalloway
SplunkTrust
SplunkTrust

Try these props.conf settings.

[dolphin]
SHOULD_LINEMERGE = false
LINE_BREAKER = ([\r\n]+)\d\d:\d\d:\d\d\d
DATETIME_CONFIG = current
---
If this reply helps you, Karma would be appreciated.

whunterj
Explorer

This worked! Much appreciated, thank you.

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