Getting Data In

Unable to re-index all data

Deecie
Explorer

I'm trying to re-index some old data now that I've changed what index it goes into and

The data comes in from a UF that monitors two files.

These are the steps I took:

  • Stopped the forwarder
  • Ran this on the indexer:

* | DELETE

  • ran this on the forwarder; my understanding is that it should clear the _fishbucket index:

splunk clean all

  • made my config changes
  • started the forwarder

I'm now seeing data come correctly into the new index with the new source types, but there's no retrospective data - only new incoming data. Anyone know what I might be doing wrong?

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neelamssantosh
Contributor

We can re-index the data by modifying first line of the log file with some comments.
eg: #Re-index
so that crcSalt doen't match with other files and it re-indexes your data.

Hope it can help you.
All the best

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cramasta
Builder

does each event in your log file have a timestamp?

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Deecie
Explorer

Unfortunately not. All the data I index has the indexing date as its time stamp. I've tried setting up a props.conf entry to specify the timestamp format for this sourcetype but it had no effect.

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araitz
Splunk Employee
Splunk Employee

Did your resolution for your other issue solve this problem as well?

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Deecie
Explorer

Yep, every line.

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