Getting Data In

Why is my Event line breaking not working properly?

msichani
Explorer

Hi, I've reviewed almost all the question about event line breaking but still have some inconsistency with data ingesting to my Splunk Enterprise. Is there any sort of debugging/logging system for data input and the method which Splunk use to handle multiline events. My data looks like this:

{"timestamp_ns":1497623896051426216,"timestamp":1497623896,"measurements":{"response_send_time_us":147,"walltime_us":1003,"xxxxx_walltime_us":493,"xxxxx_walltime_us":510,"xxxxx_time_us":159,"xxxxx_time_us":120,"xxxxx_time_us":82},"application":"xxxxx","type":"xxxxx_query_request","metadata":{"request_type":2,"xx_id":1,"request_timestamp_ns":1497623896050422653,"request_id":"1234567890123456789"}}
{"timestamp_ns":1497623896051426216,"timestamp":1497623896,"measurements":{"response_send_time_us":147,"walltime_us":1003,"xxxxx_walltime_us":493,"xxxxx_walltime_us":510,"xxxxx_time_us":159,"xxxxx_time_us":120,"xxxxx_time_us":82},"application":"xxxxx","type":"xxxxx_query_request","metadata":{"request_type":2,"xx_id":1,"request_timestamp_ns":1497623896050422653,"request_id":"1234567890123456789"}}
{"timestamp_ns":1497623896051426216,"timestamp":1497623896,"measurements":{"response_send_time_us":147,"walltime_us":1003,"xxxxx_walltime_us":493,"xxxxx_walltime_us":510,"xxxxx_time_us":159,"xxxxx_time_us":120,"xxxxx_time_us":82},"application":"xxxxx","type":"xxxxx_query_request","metadata":{"request_type":2,"xx_id":1,"request_timestamp_ns":1497623896050422653,"request_id":"1234567890123456789"}}
{"timestamp_ns":1497623896051426216,"timestamp":1497623896,"measurements":{"response_send_time_us":147,"walltime_us":1003,"xxxxx_walltime_us":493,"xxxxx_walltime_us":510,"xxxxx_time_us":159,"xxxxx_time_us":120,"xxxxx_time_us":82},"application":"xxxxx","type":"xxxxx_query_request","metadata":{"request_type":2,"xx_id":1,"request_timestamp_ns":1497623896050422653,"request_id":"1234567890123456789"}}
Here's what I've tried in props.conf:

[SOURCETYPE_NAME]
MAX_TIMESTAMP_LOOKAHEAD = 20
SHOULD_LINEMERGE = false
LINE_BREAKER = ([\r\n]+){\"timestam_ns\"
TIME_FORMAT = %s%9N
TIME_PREFIX = "timestamp_ns":
For SHOULD_LINEMERGE = false, I've tried other LINE_BREAKER as well, like ^\{, ([\r\n]+)\{, etc but no luck.

[SOURCETYPE_NAME]
MAX_TIMESTAMP_LOOKAHEAD = 20
SHOULD_LINEMERGE = true
BREAK_ONLY_BEFORE = ^\{
TIME_FORMAT = %s%9N
TIME_PREFIX = "timestamp_ns":

Just for your information, I've tried manual Add Data feature and both configs works fine there. And I'm testing these stuff on a Splunk Developer Personal License before applying the changes against the actual Enterprise version.

1 Solution

somesoni2
Revered Legend

I would give this a try. Also ensure that you kept this config in right place (Indexer/heavy forwarder whichever comes first in flow)

[SOURCETYPE_NAME]
 SHOULD_LINEMERGE = false
 LINE_BREAKER = ([\r\n]+)(?=\s*\{\s*\"timestam_ns\")
 TIME_FORMAT = %s%9N
 TIME_PREFIX = ^\s*\{\s*\"timestam_ns\"
 MAX_TIMESTAMP_LOOKAHEAD = 20

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horsefez
Motivator

Hi msichani,

try the following stanza

[SOURCETYPE_NAME]
MAX_TIMESTAMP_LOOKAHEAD = 20
SHOULD_LINEMERGE = true
BREAK_ONLY_BEFORE = \{\"timestamp\_ns\"
TIME_FORMAT = %s%9N
TIME_PREFIX = "timestamp_ns":
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msichani
Explorer

The problem was with HF in between, your stanaza should definitely work as well but with proper routing. Thanks anyway.

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somesoni2
Revered Legend

I would give this a try. Also ensure that you kept this config in right place (Indexer/heavy forwarder whichever comes first in flow)

[SOURCETYPE_NAME]
 SHOULD_LINEMERGE = false
 LINE_BREAKER = ([\r\n]+)(?=\s*\{\s*\"timestam_ns\")
 TIME_FORMAT = %s%9N
 TIME_PREFIX = ^\s*\{\s*\"timestam_ns\"
 MAX_TIMESTAMP_LOOKAHEAD = 20

msichani
Explorer

I think the trick was the right place, it was going through heavy forwarder, Added _TCP_ROUTING and it looks fine now. Thanks for the hint @somesoni2

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