Splunk Answers Content Calendar May 2025 🎉

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Hello Splunk Community!

Welcome to the first post of the Splunk Answers Content Calendar 🎉

This week, I'll be spotlighting three standout topics from the #Getting-Data-In board, sharing solutions from our experts and best practices to help you bring data into Splunk more effectively.    

Here are some of the most popular topics that caught the community's attention, each one solved with insights and expertise from our Splunk experts!

1. Ensuring Consistent _time Extraction During File Indexing

The topic is about event timestamp parsing during indexing in Splunk Enterprise, specifically related to incorrect _time assignments after new events are added to a file. The user @punkle64 wants to make sure that Splunk consistently extracts the correct timestamp from the event data instead of using the file’s modification time.

Our brilliant experts helped the user troubleshoot the problem. @PickleRick was able to provide a solution that by removing datetime config from your props.conf, it will fall back to its default timestamp extraction behavior. 

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         2. Index-Time Routing with Selective Cloning Based on Event Content

This question is about log routing and filtering using props.conf and transforms.conf in Splunk Enterprise, specifically: Cloning logs to a distant heavy forwarder (HF), filtering out specific logs, and using index-time routing for selective forwarding and duplication of events. The user @Nicolas2203 is looking for guidance on whether this approach is reliable and correctly implemented.

Our experts @livehybrid and @isoutamo  provided some solutions that helped the user. 

Explicit cloning, conditional override and cleaner approach using input-level clone and that all events are cloned to both by default. 

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             3. Splitting JSON Array into multiple events

This question is about parsing and event breaking of JSON arrays during data ingestion in Splunk. The user @ws is trying to split a JSON array into multiple distinct events, but Splunk is indexing the entire array as a single event, despite attempts to configure props.conf.

Our experts @kiran_panchavat, @PickleRick, and @livehybrid help the user create his own solution by suggesting a props.conf configuration for properly splitting a JSON array into multiple events at index time.  This configuration aims to break the JSON array into multiple distinct events based on a key field, improving parsing and field extraction.

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Thanks to all our experts @PickleRick @livehybrid @kiran_panchavat and @isoutamo for sharing your Splunk knowledge, guiding users with clarity, and consistently going above and beyond. Your contributions truly make our Splunk Community smarter and more supportive every day!

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