Getting Data In

Splunk 6 auto key value extraction not working?

mmmmssss
Engager

I have recently installed splunk 6, almost certain this worked fine in splunk 5...

I have extracted a number of fields from one index into another using the "| collect index=events" function. Now I have the fields in the new index and the raw data contains the key values i expected, but they are not being auto extracted by splunk?

I have also tested this with some other data which also doesn't extract, and turned on verbose mode.

Example data:

time="2013/06/06 15:15:15" data="test" seconddata="test2"

05/09/2013 23:45:39 +0100, info_search_time=1381837886.531, bytes=214, client_ip="192.168.0.1", company=test1, destination_ip="10.0.0.1", domain="example.com", method=GET, reason="Not Found", status=404, uri="/test-env"

Question: Is there some global setting to turn on KV extraction? Otherwise is it something I have broken?

Thanks,

Michael

Tags (1)

tupadhyaya
Engager

I see the same behavior when I tried looking at one of the S.O.S dashboards after upgrading to Splunk 6. While some fields (searchid etc) are auto extracted. The total_run_time, event_count are not.

5/9/14
2:16:53.552 PM

Audit:[timestamp=05-09-2014 14:16:53.552, user=splunk, action=search, info=canceled, search_id='1399670142.1517.xyz', total_run_time=2.75, event_count=0, result_count=0, available_count=0, scan_count=0, drop_count=0, exec_time=1399670142, api_et=1397026800.000000000, api_lt=1399670142.000000000, search_et=1397026800.000000000, search_lt=1399670142.000000000, is_realtime=0, savedsearch_name=""][n/a]
5/9/14
2:15:42.334 PM

Audit:[timestamp=05-09-2014 14:15:42.334, user=splunk, action=search, info=granted , search_id='1399670142.1517.xyz', search='search index=splunk', autojoin='1', buckets=300, ttl=600, max_count=10000, maxtime=8640000, enable_lookups='1', extra_fields='*', apiStartTime='Wed Apr 9 00:00:00 2014', apiEndTime='Fri May 9 14:15:42 2014', savedsearch_name=""][n/a]

0 Karma
Got questions? Get answers!

Join the Splunk Community Slack to learn, troubleshoot, and make connections with fellow Splunk practitioners in real time!

Meet up IRL or virtually!

Join Splunk User Groups to connect and learn in-person by region or remotely by topic or industry.

Get Updates on the Splunk Community!

Meet the .conf26 AI Agent Buildathon Winners

At the .conf26 AI Agent Buildathon, Splunk users turned their operational expertise into working AI agents ...

Trusted Autonomy in the SOC: A Maturity Journey

AI is compressing attacker timelines and pushing SOC teams beyond human capacity thresholds. The next SOC ...

Supercharging Windows Security Detection Performance: Introducing Hybrid Field ...

Windows event logs—from Security auditing and Sysmon to PowerShell script blocks—form the operational backbone ...