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Removal of unnecessary fields BEFORE INDEX

davidepala
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Hi all!
There is a way to prevent the indexing of unnecessary fields? i'm indexing a syslog file from a firewall so i can do this at syslog server side but if it's possible I'd rather do it in splunk.

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niketn
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@davidepala you can have a scripted input to push only required data/fields to Splunk.
You can also use REGEX or SEDCMD to find regular expression based pattern and replace with space.

https://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/latest/Data/Anonymizedata

If you have to omin entire event from being indexed you can use nullqueue

http://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/latest/Forwarding/Routeandfilterdatad#Filter_event_data_...

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niketn
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@davidepala you can have a scripted input to push only required data/fields to Splunk.
You can also use REGEX or SEDCMD to find regular expression based pattern and replace with space.

https://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/latest/Data/Anonymizedata

If you have to omin entire event from being indexed you can use nullqueue

http://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/latest/Forwarding/Routeandfilterdatad#Filter_event_data_...

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davidepala
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TOP, you've save my day! tnx man!!!

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niketn
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@davidepala, anytime. Please accept the answer if it helped. Do let us know if you need further help 🙂

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