Getting Data In

log4j showing Hexadecimal in Preview

christopheh
New Member

Hello

I have a log file made through a log4j on a windows box. I open it through Kate

06-12-12 20:20:32 THD=3304 INFO broker.operation - Reading key from the registry : 'XXXX'.
06-12-12 20:20:32 THD=3304 INFO broker.operation - Error while reading the key value : The Starting instance time out is inactive.
06-12-12 20:21:00 THD=3304 INFO system.net.http - Opening URL:

and in Splunk I have this:

26/06/2012 14:46:15.000 

\xFF\xFE0\x006\x00-\x001\x002\x00-\x001\x002\x00 \x002\x000\x00:\x002\x000\x00:\x003\x002\x00 \x00T\x00H\x00D\x00=\x003\x002\x008\x008\x00 \x00I\x00N\x00F\x00O\x00 \x00b\x00r\x00o\x00k\x00e\x00r\x00.\x00o\x00p\x00e\x00r\x00a\x00t\x00i\x00o\x00n\x00 \x00-\x00 \x00W\x00e\x00b\x00 \x00s\x00e\x00r\x00v\x00e\x00r\x00 \x00"\x00h\x00t\x00t\x00p\x00:\x00/\x00/\x00a\x00r\x00m\x00w\x00e\x00b\x00d\x00d\x00c\x000\x000\x001\x00/\x00m\x00a\x00g\x00n\x00i\x00t\x00u\x00d\x00e\x00_\x00p\x00r\x00o\x00d\x00"\x00 \x00c\x00o\x00n\x00t\x00a\x00c\x00t\x00e\x00d\x00 \x00a\x00b\x00o\x00u\x00t\x00 \x00s\x00e\x00r\x00v\x00e\x00r\x00 \x00s\x00t\x00a\x00r\x00t\x00 \x00o\x00n\x00 \x00c\x00o\x00m\x00p\x00u\x00t\x00e\x00r\x00 \x00A\x00R\x00M\x00B\x00O\x00C\x00D\x00D\x00C\x000\x001\x000\x00 \x00f\x00o\x00r\x00 \x00d\x00a\x00t\x00a\x00s\x00o\x00u\x00r\x00c\x00e\x00 \x00M\x00a\x00g\x00n\x00i\x00t\x00u\x00d\x00e\x00_\x00P\x00R\x00O\x00D\x00.\x00

What could be the issue

Thanks a lot
Christophe

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christopheh
New Member

Hello

I am reading from a file on my disks (transferred from the windows box)

Thanks a lot

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christopheh
New Member

Hello

in the meantime i use this to convert from utf16 to utf8
iconv -f UTF-16 -t UTF-8 -o dest.log source.log

and now it works like a charm

Thanks mikeanghorst

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christopheh
New Member

Hello,

I have analysed the file and it appears to be in Little-endian UTF-16 Unicode English text, with CRLF line terminators

Kind Regards

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mikelanghorst
Motivator

Hmm, I'm lost on why that would occur. I've only seen hex data when I had tried sending tcp syslog data to a splunktcp listener.

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mikelanghorst
Motivator

How are you receiving the data? Via tcp/udp or reading a file directly?

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