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different sourcetypes with identical field names

nikmeiser
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I have two different sourcetypes that both have the same field name. Is there any way to explicitly specify a fieldname sourcetype?

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nikmeiser
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Silly noob question this was. splunk doesn't care what the field name is. I changed the fieldnames in transforms.conf to something else (anything else) and it worked

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nikmeiser
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Silly noob question this was. splunk doesn't care what the field name is. I changed the fieldnames in transforms.conf to something else (anything else) and it worked

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