Getting Data In

Has anybody indexed json format file

htsvaggar
New Member

Hi,

Has anybody done parsing JSON file.

If you can let me know what are the setting being done
in input.conf and props.conf files.

Thanks
sanjeev

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s2_splunk
Splunk Employee
Splunk Employee
KV_MODE=json

is all you need to set unless your log requires special settings to extract the timestamp.

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htsvaggar
New Member

Thanks

That did not work.

At least I should see the different source type in the event search. I am not seeing either.

Regards

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satishsdange
Builder

Could you please refer to below link-
http://answers.splunk.com/answers/218306/json-format-is-not-getting-indexed.html

If that does not solve your problem, please share some sample logs.

Thanks

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