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HEC event formatting: How to configure Splunk to show only message field and not all fields?

redg
Loves-to-Learn

Good evening,
With a Java Spring Boot application, I use the library provided by Splunk to send to Splunk the logs using
com.splunk.logging.HttpEventCollectorLogbackAppender.

By default when I do a search in Splunk, the event appears like this (see image below).

redg_0-1673231701551.png

But I'd rather default the search to return results in this form.

redg_1-1673231784318.png

Is it possible to configure Splunk (Source types, etc..)  to display only the message field and not the entire event with all the fields?

 

 

 

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PaulPanther
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@redg You could use the HEC Raw-Endpoint (Format events for HTTP Event Collector - Splunk Documentation) and parse & transform the events as needed.

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