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Monitor Log that changes the first few characters every few minutes causing duplicate indexing of the same log.

gorgiea
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Hello, 

Trying to monitor a log which changes the first few characters of the log every few minutes, this seems to cause Splunk UF to re-index the whole log each time, since it see's the first few characters as being different which causes a difference crc. 

I have tried many different options but nothing seems to be working properly to index this log properly and without duplicates. Example of log below.

 

.log  at 02:53

eÎ5  eÎ5   014500000000000003FGR0002TRA00102021/01/24001202:53 32.0850006

same .log a few minutes later at 02:56

ØT&  ØT&   014500000000000003FGR0002TRA00102021/01/24001202:53 32.0850006
014500000000000003FGR0002TRA00102021/01/24001202:55 42.0150006
014500000000000003FGR0002TRA00102021/01/24001202:56 33.0110006

 

Seems the App that generates this log changes these characters for some reason and there is no way to capture the data without getting duplicate data. Any suggestions? Thanks

 

 

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