Getting Data In

Split data into sourcetypes based on syslog Facility code

Jason
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I'm about to help a client get some data split into different sourcetypes from syslog, based on a facility code set by the device.

Assuming I turn on no_priority_stripping in the udp input, is there a more elegant solution than just regexing off of _raw to split this out? Or are facility/priority codes not pulled out at index time?

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gkanapathy
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They are not handled specially, so you'd need to use a regular expression against the _raw data.

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gkanapathy
Splunk Employee
Splunk Employee

They are not handled specially, so you'd need to use a regular expression against the _raw data.

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