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Syslog Universal Forwarder truncated at 1024 bytes

someyoungfella
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Hi there,

I'm using a Splunk UF to monitor a Windows folder and syslog the events to a remote server where they are collected and written to Hadoop.

From reading previous questions here, I understand that the syslog universal forwarder is RFC 3164 compliant. That is, events have a maximum length of 1024 bytes, after which they are truncated. I was wondering if there are plans to change that (perhaps by implementing RFC 5424?). If not, could anyone suggest an alternative?

Thanks in advance.

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SK110176
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http://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/latest/Admin/Outputsconf

----Syslog output----

maxEventSize =
* If specified, sets the maximum size of an event that splunk will transmit.
* All events excedding this size will be truncated.
* Defaults to 1024 bytes.

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