Getting Data In

custom timestamp parsing

nikmeiser
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I have structured (CSV) files with named fields with a few different date-time formats -

TIMEA,host,TIMET,DURATION,HOUR,SHIFT
01/30/2012   0:00:00,host01,1327899600,3600,0,2

TIMET (third comma-separaetd value from left) is the UNIX time. How can I force Splunk to use that as timestamp for the event?

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nikmeiser
Explorer

Figured it out

TIME_FORMAT = %+ 
TIME_PREFIX = ^([^,]*,){2} 

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nikmeiser
Explorer

Figured it out

TIME_FORMAT = %+ 
TIME_PREFIX = ^([^,]*,){2} 
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