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Splunk forwarder text masking

gchkhikvadzecar
Engager

hello
I need help. for masking text in .log file with splunk forwarder i have 16 numbers like 1111-2222-3333-4444 I would like to be XXXX-XXXX-XXXX-4444.

thanks in advance

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jbsplunk
Splunk Employee
Splunk Employee

detailed instructions on this can be found here:

http://www.splunk.com/base/Documentation/latest/Data/Anonymizedatawithsed

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