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Ignoring a specific portion of the log file (header/footer)

KidCrippler
Engager
‎04-04-2013 03:48 AM

I want splunk to start indexing my log file only after it encountered a specific string/regex.

Everything before that marker should be ignored as I have no use for it.

Is there any way to do that?

Thanks

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ogdin
Splunk Employee
Splunk Employee
‎02-13-2014 08:45 AM

For Splunk 6, see:

http://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/latest/Data/Extractfieldsfromfileheadersatindextime

Specifically the example on ignoring useless long headers.

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