Knowledge Management

Summary Index does not seem correct

aohls
Contributor

I have a summary index I am looking to put data in.

| table Name,host,_time, component, operation, userName, responseTimeSeconds
| fields - _raw

This is the basis of what I have. When putting it into the summary index I was hoping to have only the fields specified in my table. Instead I am getting things like the following included:

08/26/2019 12:29:59 -0400, search_name=savedReport, search_now=1566837000.000, info_min_time=1566836700.000, info_max_time=1566837000.000, info_search_time=1566837197.992,

Is there any way strip out this information in my index? Will it automatically add it. I used collect with testmode=true and thought that should indicate what my output looks like. Is there a step I am missing or is that what I should expect to have in my data? For awareness what I am trying to do is gather some data we want that will stay around longer than our current setup by stripping out a lot of items in the logging we do not need.

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woodcock
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That is just the way that it works. If you have spare license, you can always use the Log Event action, but it is not free like Summary Index is.

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woodcock
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That is just the way that it works. If you have spare license, you can always use the Log Event action, but it is not free like Summary Index is.

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aohls
Contributor

@woodcock Thanks for the insight.

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