Hi
I am monitoring dir paths on a syslog server with a UF.
I have a few sources with different formats under the same sourcetype.
I decided to use a regex to differentiate sources and set their unique formats.
For example I have these two sources...
source 1 = /splunkdata/foobar/serverName/2021-04-06-bar.log
source 2 =/splunkdata/foobar/serverName/2021-04-06-foo-bar.log
I cannot use a "*" wildcard because it is not specific enough, for example *-bar.log will pickup -foo-bar.log too.
The date prefix changes with the log names so I tried this...
source 1 = /splunkdata/foobar/serverName/\d{4}-\d{2}-\d{2}-bar.log
source 2 =/splunkdata/foobar/serverName/\d{4}-\d{2}-\d{2}-foo-bar.log
but no luck... 😞
IDK if I messed the regex or this is not possible...
Any ideas or examples appreciated.
Thank you
Stanza names can contain regular expressions, but only if the name also contains "..." or "*". Without one of those it's just plain text.
BTW, files with different formats should be different sourcetypes.
Stanza names can contain regular expressions, but only if the name also contains "..." or "*". Without one of those it's just plain text.
BTW, files with different formats should be different sourcetypes.
Thx Rich!
I added a star like this and it works now
[source::/splunkdata/foobar/serverName/*\d{4}-\d{2}-\d{2}-foo-bar.log]
There is never anything before the data prefix so I don't think this will have any adverse effects.
RE: 1 to 1 > sourcetype to format, I agree but the senders did not listen and to rework it is going to take an act of God... so I try to make it work with source stanzas.
RE: Stanza names can contain regular expressions, but only if the name also contains "..." or "*". Without one of those it's just plain text.
I will see if I can apply one of those...
Thank you!