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How to resolve TailReader errors and data loss using universal forwarder (bug during applyPendingMetadata, header processor does not own the indexed extractions confs)?

Behnam67
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I've been dealing with this TailReader error for a while and was not able to fix it despite reading all answers and similar questions. I'm still experiencing data loss every day.

As you can see in below .confs I already disabled indexed_extraction since the universal forwarder doesn't extract field at index time, but still getting that error.

I was told to migrate to a heavy forwarder, but I prefer to solve it on UF if possible.

I appreciate any help.

inputs.conf

[monitor:///home/audit/oracle/*/v1[12]*.log]
disabled = 0
index = ora
sourcetype = oracle:audit:json
blacklist = (ERROR|lost|ORA|#|DONE)
crcSalt = 
initCrcLength = 1000
ignoreOlderThan = 4h
alwaysOpenFile = 1
interval = 30

props.conf

[oracle:audit:json]
DATETIME_CONFIG = CURRENT
#INDEXED_EXTRACTIONS = JSON
KV_MODE = none
MAX_EVENTS = 5
TRUNCATE = 0
TRANSFORMS-TCP_ROUTING_GNCS = TCP_ROUTING_GNCS
TRANSFORMS-hostoverride = hostoverride
TRANSFORMS-HOST_JSON = HOST_JSON
TRANSFORMS-sourcetype_json11 = sourcetype_json11
TRANSFORMS-sourcetype_json12 = sourcetype_json12
TRANSFORMS-sourcetype_sql11 = sourcetype_sql11
TRANSFORMS-sourcetype_sql12 = sourcetype_sql12
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