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How to set a correct line breaks in my props.conf

perlish
Communicator

The first picture is my original logs
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The second picture is my logs in the splunk
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Now,we can see the splunk wrap my logs in the wrong places.
Please tell me how to set in the props.conf can solve this problem.
Thanks very much!

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lmyrefelt
Builder

Hi,

Try this,

LINE_BREAKER = ([\r\n]+)\[[^\]]+\]\[\d{4}\-\d{2}\-\d{2}\s++\d{2}\:\d{2}\:\d{2}\,\d{3}\]\[tid\:

THat should break the events better for you

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bmunson_splunk
Splunk Employee
Splunk Employee

Hi perlish

There seems to be two problems. First the output of your logs has unwanted carriage returns in it. The second splunk is not recognising this as a multiline event. The latter can be fixed with the following stanza in props.conf. The time prefix looks complex but it is saying look for a line that starts with [ and the time should come after the second [

[business]
SHOULD_LINEMERGE = true
BREAK_ONLY_BEFORE_DATE = true
TIME_PREFIX = ^\[[^\[]+\[
TIME_FORMAT = %Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S,%q3
MAX_TIMESTAMP_LOOKAHEAD = 24

The line breaks will still be there and may cause fields to break in half. I suggest you look at how these logs are generated for the cause.

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bmunson_splunk
Splunk Employee
Splunk Employee

Ignore the 5. before time format. I don't know where that came from.

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perlish
Communicator

I tried this method but it seems did not work.
How can I set up the line breaker like a '\n'.

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richgalloway
SplunkTrust
SplunkTrust

It's a line number added by the system in all code samples.

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richgalloway
SplunkTrust
SplunkTrust

What are the current props.conf settings for this log? Have you tried BREAK_ONLY_BEFORE=[ems.ton]?

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perlish
Communicator

Yes,I have tried but did not work.

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