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Index time - time field setting

cafissimo
Communicator

Hello, is it possible to tell Splunk to ignore timestamps that are in a log file and to consider as timestamp the indexing time?

Thanks in advance,

Luca.

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ziegfried
Influencer

Yes. You can tell Splunk not to extract a timestamp by setting DATETIME_CONFIG to CURRENT in your props.conf for your sourcetype:

[your_sourcetype]
DATETIME_CONFIG = CURRENT

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ziegfried
Influencer

Yes. You can tell Splunk not to extract a timestamp by setting DATETIME_CONFIG to CURRENT in your props.conf for your sourcetype:

[your_sourcetype]
DATETIME_CONFIG = CURRENT

mikelanghorst
Motivator

Thanks ziegfried, was having trouble finding this.

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