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Excluding data from application log with input.conf?

abovebeyond
Communicator

Hello,

we indexing our application logs and i need to exclude some content from it

the log files looks like:

2015-07-09 00:00:01.1020|process-name|INFO| LINE TO EXCLUDE from index
2015-07-09 00:00:01.1021|process-name|INFO| Data OK
2015-07-09 00:00:01.1021|process-name|INFO| Data OK
2015-07-09 00:00:01.1021|process-name|INFO| Data OK

and i want to exclude all the contents with specific name that repeat itself
is it possible ?

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alacercogitatus
SplunkTrust
SplunkTrust

Check out the answer below. Basically, you want to nullQueue that event.

http://answers.splunk.com/answers/59370/filtering-events-using-nullqueue.html

The answer above is given for Windows logs, but the concepts are the same.

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