Splunk Group Events By timestamp

[markgomez00]

Hi,

I have this log file mixed with a single and multiple line events, my problem is that splunk is breaking some multiline events, what I want to do is group the event if splunk detects a timestamp and until a new timestamp is detected it will be displayed as a one event?

what i want to happen is in this format:

[timestamp][message] //event1

[message] //event1

[message] //event1

[timestamp][message] //event2

[timestamp][message] //event3

[Ayn · Accepted solution]

This is actually the default behaviour. Splunk will break when it finds a valid timestamp. What might be happening is that Splunk finds something else that it considers to be a valid timestamp in the places within event 1 where it's breaking though it shouldn't. You can tell Splunk explicitly what time format it should be looking for by specifying TIME_FORMAT for the sourcetype in question in props.conf.

[Ayn]

Yes. Like I said, you can set TIME_FORMAT. More information on this is available here: http://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/5.0/Data/Configuretimestamprecognition

In your case the time format would be something like:

TIME_FORMAT = %Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S

[markgomez00]

Hi ayn,

I have checked the logs and it seems your right, there are some lines that have a timestamp but it's a little different.

the timestamp format that i want only splunk to recognize is:"2013-07-18 07:47:05,720"

that other timestamp format that splunk is recognizing is:
"2013-07-18T07:46:10.4696008Z"

now i don't have access to change the logs because it is being only sent to us by a third party

is it possible for splunk to not read the other timestamp format above