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How to configure forwarder to filter and forward data to a third party system?

premg
Engager

We need to forward data to a third party system.
I would need to forward all data with sourcetype as *_syslog to the third party system via UDP.
I need to forward data to third party system before indexing the data.

so in heavyforwarder props.conf
[sourcetype::*_syslog]
TRANSFORMS-routingxxxx=routeToxxxxxxx

in transforms.conf
[routeToxxxxxxx]
REGEX=(.)
DEST_KEY=_SYSLOG_ROUTING
FORMAT=outputs_xxxxxxx

in outputs.conf
[syslog:outputs_xxxxxxx]
syslogSourceType=syslog
server=ip
type=udp

The above setting is not sending any data to the third party system.
Please suggest is there is any error in the above configurations.

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MuS
SplunkTrust
SplunkTrust

Hi premg,

make sure your sourcetype matches exactly and your regex (.) looks strange. I assume you want to match everything ( equal to . in regex ) but your regex is matching (.) .. try using a single dot like . instead in transforms.conf.

hope this helps ...

cheers, MuS

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