Getting Data In

Zscaler log filtering

Iana_R
Loves-to-Learn Lots

Hello guys,

I am quite new on the topic so I really need tyour help ^_^.
I am ingesting Zscaler logs in a Splunk Cloud instance using a HeavyForwarder and TCP Inputs. As for AUTH logs the volume is huge, we want to filter logs by limiting logs on following conditions: if one user is logging in one application today, all following logs for this user logging in that application in this specific day (month/date/year) would be discarded and we would start the ingesting next day using the same conditions. I hope this is pretty clear.

I know that this can be done in prop.conf and transform.conf but I am not sure on how I should build the string.

Thank you in advance. 

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PickleRick
SplunkTrust
SplunkTrust

You cannot do this. At least not using Splunk's built-in functionality. Splunk handles each event separately and doesn't keep "state" so you cannot conditionally influence ingestion process based on other events' values/properties.

You'd need to use some custom script pre-processing the events before ingesting them to Splunk.

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