Solved: Re: force timestamp to event receive time - Splunk Community

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how can i force the timestamp of an event to be the receive time and ignore all other timestamps in the event.

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Solution

the solution is to disable the timestamp processor:

http://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/5.0.2/Data/TuneTimestampExtractionForBetterIndexingPerfo...

"Splunk does not look at the text of the event for the timestamp. Instead, it uses the event's "time of receipt"

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Solution

the solution is to disable the timestamp processor:

http://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/5.0.2/Data/TuneTimestampExtractionForBetterIndexingPerfo...

"Splunk does not look at the text of the event for the timestamp. Instead, it uses the event's "time of receipt"

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