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Indexer cluster ignores TRUNCATE for splunk_python

NoSpaces
Contributor

Have a nice day, everyone!
For continuous event truncation tracking, I have a simple alert that notifies me about truncation:

index="_internal" sourcetype="splunkd" log_level="WARN" "Truncating"
| rex field=_raw "limit\s+of\s+(?<Limit>\d+)\s"
| rex field=_raw "length\s+>=\s+(?<MessageLength>\d+)\s+"
| rex field=_raw "data_host=\"(?<Host>.*?)\",\s"
| rex field=_raw "data_sourcetype=\"(?<Sourcetype>.*?)\""
| stats count by Sourcetype, Host, Limit, MessageLength
| top limit=5 Sourcetype, MessageLength
| table Sourcetype, MessageLength

After my last update, I have started to notice that the 'splunk_python' sourcetype hits the default TRUNCATE value a couple of times per hour.
Overall, the events look fine, so I decided to tune the TRUNCATE value on the indexer cluster layer (manager-apps\_cluster\local\props.conf):

[splunk_python]
SHOULD_LINEMERGE = false
TRUNCATE = 20000

Unfortunately, it also didn't help, and I'm still getting alerts with the default message length (10000). Then I set TRUNCATE to 0 and found no difference. What am I doing wrong?

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richgalloway
SplunkTrust
SplunkTrust

Make sure you're setting the TRUNCATE value on the Host that is reporting the truncation.  Be sure that Splunk instance is restarted after making the change.

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richgalloway
SplunkTrust
SplunkTrust

Make sure you're setting the TRUNCATE value on the Host that is reporting the truncation.  Be sure that Splunk instance is restarted after making the change.

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NoSpaces
Contributor

Your point is right.
I have also thought that truncation can appear only on IDXC layer but it were my SHCs.

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