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How to exclude certain logs from indexing

vishetty
Observer

is there a way to exclude all logs being indexed for a certain field 

for eg : sourcetype=azs  container_name=moss-logger

I want my HF to filter any data being ingested from particular field (conatiner_name) with value "moss-logger"

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gcusello
SplunkTrust
SplunkTrust

Hi @vishetty,

you can discard (and not index) data before indexing but you cannot use fields to filter them, you have to find a regex and discard all the events that match that regex.

For more infos see at https://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/8.2.2/Forwarding/Routeandfilterdatad#Filter_event_data_...

Ciao.

Giuseppe

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