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Why am I unable to rename sourcetypes with my current attempts?

juraj
Explorer

Hello everyone,

I see that this question has been posted many times, but none of the suggested fixes appear to work for me.
I have several data sources indexed with a wrong sourcetype.
E.g. my sourcetypes are log.1, log.2, log.3 ... and I'd like to rename them to "log" at search time.

I put in the props.conf on the search head the following:

[log*]
rename = log

but it doesn't seem to work after running the | extract reload=t.
I have also tried [log...] which should accomplish the same thing, or the somewhat arcane looking [(?:::){0}log*], but none of these appear to work.

Am I doing something obviously wrong here? I'm not touching transforms.conf, but per docs, I shouldn't really need to, and the simple two lines in props.conf on the search head should work.

Many thanks!

J.

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woodcock
Esteemed Legend

Like this in props.conf (it works, I tested it):

[(?:::){0}log*]
rename = log
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