Getting Data In

Props.conf - Timestamp extraction failed

_olivier_
Path Finder

Hi splunkers ! I m facing an issue that is going to make me crazy ! I've got to set the timestamp in the following logs (timestamp field is the 11th field, the first one being the insert time by the proxy himself)  : 2024-09-16T13:12:54+02:00 Logging-Client 

"-1","username","1.2.3.4","POST","872","2211","www.facebook.com","/csp/reporting/","OBSERVED","","1726484997","2024-09-16 11:09:57","https","Social Networking","application/x-empty","","Minimal Risk","Remove 'X-Forwarded-For' Header","200","10.97.5.240","","","Firefox","102.0","Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:102.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/102.0","firefox.exe","1.2.3.4","443","US","","t","t","t","f","f","computerName","","1.2.3.4","1.2.3.4","8080"

So, I'm using a regex to extract fields and set the real timestamp in my props.conf : 

[mySourcetype] SHOULD_LINEMERGE = false EXTRACT-mySourcetype = ^[^,\n]*,"(?P\w+)","(?P[^"]+)","(?P\w+)","(?P[^"]+)[^,\n]*,"(?P[^"]+)[^,\n]*,"(?P[^"]+)","(?P(?=\s*)|[^"]+)","(?P[^"]+)","(?P(?=\s*)|[^"]+)","(?P[^"]+)","(?P[^"]+)","(?P[^"]+)","(?P[^"]+)","(?P(?=\s*)|[^"]+)","(?P(?=\s*)|[^"]+)","(?P[^"]+)","(?P(?=\s*)|[^"]+)","(?P[^"]+)","(?P[^"]+)","(?P(?=\s*)|[^"]+)","(?P(?=\s*)|[^"]+)","(?P[^"]+)","(?P(?=\s*)|[^"]+)","(?P(?=\s*)|[^"]+)","(?P[^"]+)","(?P[^"]+)","(?P[^"]+)","(?P[^"]+)","(?P(?=\s*)|[^"]+)","(?P[^"]+)","(?P[^"]+)","(?P[^"]+)","(?P[^"]+)","(?P[^"]+)","(?P[^"]+)","(?P(?=\s*)|[^"]+)","(?P[^"]+)","(?P[^"]+)","(?P[^"]+)"$ TIME_PREFIX = (?:[^,]+,){11} TIME_FORMAT = %Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S

 

  Then, Ive got different results based on different source:

Upload a file directly in the search head        

             Extraction    Ok         Timestamp    OK

File red from an universal forwarder          

            Extraction     OK           Timestamp  Failed

 

The is NO heavy forwarder between the UF and the indexers.

The props.conf is deployed only on the SearchHeads. So, Something is tricky here !

 

If someone got an idea, I will apreciate ! Cheers.

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gcusello
SplunkTrust
SplunkTrust

Hi @_olivier_ ,

it seems to be a comma separated file, in this case, you must put props.conf also in the UF.

Ciao.

Giuseppe

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