Getting Data In

Why is TIME_FORMAT not working?

himanshu1
Loves-to-Learn Lots

Hello Friends,

In a sourcetype , data are coming in from multiple hosts and host are residing in diff-2 time zones.

In raw logs we can see time zone is also mentioned, I want to write a generic TIME_FORMAT for this.

time stamps example :

Mar 7 09:18:00 SGT:
Mar 6 19:07:42 UTC:
Mar 7 01:31:58.460 WST:
Mar 7 09:13:17.384:

 

I tried like TIME_FORMAT= %b %d %H:%M:%S.%Q %Z , WHICH IS NOT WORKING.

%Z is not able to recognize time zone here , please help me with some other expression.

 

Thanks in advance 🙂

Happy Splunking !  !

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PickleRick
SplunkTrust
SplunkTrust

You can't have a single TIME_FORMAT for two different time specs.

You could try to extract a "base timestamp" from the event then offsetting it with data from timezone by INGEST_EVAL

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