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Order of operations? SEDCMD vs TRANSFORMS

Lowell
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In the indexing process, which happens first the SEDCMD-* entries or TRANSFORMS-* entries?

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Stephen_Sorkin
Splunk Employee
Splunk Employee

SEDCMD-* is executed before TRANSFORMS-*.

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Stephen_Sorkin
Splunk Employee
Splunk Employee

SEDCMD-* is executed before TRANSFORMS-*.

sc0tt
Builder

Thank you. I just discovered this myself while testing. I couldn't understand why some events were not being indexed. Is this documented anywhere? I couldn't find anything.

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