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Question about blacklist entry

jangid
Builder

I want to exclude all files that contain some keyword from splunk forwarder, I have added an entry in prop.conf.

[monitor:/home/default/log]
blacklist = (WARNING|FATAL|ERROR$)

but still my search result return some file that contain WARNING keyword in the file name.

can you please tell me what is the wrong here?

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sdaniels
Splunk Employee
Splunk Employee

It may need to be (WARNING.*|FATAL|ERROR$) in your regex. Is the file name only WARNING or can it contain other characters at the end?

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sdaniels
Splunk Employee
Splunk Employee

It may need to be (WARNING.*|FATAL|ERROR$) in your regex. Is the file name only WARNING or can it contain other characters at the end?

jangid
Builder

Thanks sdaniels

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