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Filtering Windows Events using XML in inputs.conf

marcoatto
New Member

Somobody has experience with filtering (supressing) Windows event using XML in Splunk inputs.conf?

So I have XML to filter specific Events from logs. I can't find in documentation stanza for adding XML in inputs.conf

Is it possible at all or only blacklisting?

Thank you

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venkatasri
SplunkTrust
SplunkTrust

Hi @marcoatto 

whitelist/blacklist are the only options to filter winevents, if your XML associated to a key ( Ex. EventCode) then using Regex you can filter them as defined in specs here - https://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/8.2.1/admin/Inputsconf#Event_Log_allow_list_and_deny_li...

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