Knowledge Management

How to collect summary events with a new sourcetype and server time

proylea
Contributor

I want to extract certain events into the same index with a different sourcetype, this is simple, but I would like to change the timestamp of the collect event to server time.

This is the search I am using but it keeps the original timestamp of the event.

index="cartt" | tail 100 | collect addtime=false index=cartt host=CARTT source=cartt_deleted sourcetype=cartt_deleted
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micahkemp
Champion

Why do you want to change the sourcetype?

You can use [source:] in props.conf to create search time customizations for summary data.

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richgalloway
SplunkTrust
SplunkTrust

How about this?

index="cartt" | tail 100 | eval _time=now() | collect addtime=false index=cartt host=CARTT source=cartt_deleted sourcetype=cartt_deleted
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If this reply helps you, Karma would be appreciated.
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