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How many field extract in splunk?

cucuro
Explorer

Hello Everyone,

Now a days when I extract fields, need 1000ea fields.
so, i defined in transforms.conf and props.conf about 1000 ea fields.
But Splunk can not recognizes.

I configured.

props.conf

[sourcetype]
REPORT-sourcetype = delimExtractions_CC_type

transforms.conf

[delimExtractions_CC_type]
DELIMS = "|"
FIELDS = "time", "A0001","A0002","A0003","A0004",.... "A1713","A1714","A1715"

I need add something in transforms.conf and props.conf?

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lguinn2
Legend

You could try adding the following to $SPLUNK_HOME/etc/system/local/limits.conf

[kv]
maxcols = 1750

By default, Splunk does not extract more than 512 fields, for performance reasons.

You might also check to make sure that your events are not being truncated, although it looks like they are okay.

cucuro
Explorer

so i need help. ^^;

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eashwar
Communicator

wow man!!! i am really waiting to see the answer for this question!!! 1500+ fields how do you analyse ?

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cucuro
Explorer

some 0 or 1, some integer, some flot etc... fields 1872 ea.

So many fields...

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cucuro
Explorer

2012-09-06 02:59:59.0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|1|0|0|0|0|0|0|1|0|0|0|1|0|0|1|0|0|0|0|1|0|1|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|1|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|725|0|25903|184|181|18|364|137|674|2720|12404|12427|12419|17844|7.6|2.8|24.4|4.4|122.0|53.2|374.7|55.3|65.9|79.3|83.8|81.9|83.9|84.9|85.5|82.6|83.7|84.2|81.4|46.3|46.5|43.1|45.4|43.8|47.1|40.4|46.8|464.7|41.7|81.7|82.2|80.5|81.8|70.5|68.6|0.93|60.34|..............

kristian_kolb
Ultra Champion

I assume that in props.conf, it does not literally say 'sourcetype', but rather the actual sourcetype of your data.

Also, are your events really that long? 1500+ pipe-separated fields? Always the same length?

Please post a sample event.

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