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Timestamp help

rakesh_498115
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Hi

I have two time stamps in my logs. .

say and TIMESTAMP=2012-07-11T06:59:00.008+01:00 ..

How can i say splunk to take one of time as _time . i need the TIMESTAMP to be taken as my loggig event time..so that i can calucate the difference between the events with the help of transacition command...

Please help..

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Ayn
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You need to set the TIME_PREFIX in props.conf.

[yoursourcetype]
TIME_PREFIX = TIMESTAMP=

http://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/latest/admin/Propsconf

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Ayn
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You need to set the TIME_PREFIX in props.conf.

[yoursourcetype]
TIME_PREFIX = TIMESTAMP=

http://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/latest/admin/Propsconf

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