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How can we resolve this Data Quality_Issue?

jackin
Path Finder

We are facing data quality issue 
Sample internal log:
WARN messages in splunkd logs as follows DateParserVerbose - Failed to parse timestamp in first MAX_TIMESTAMP_LOOKAHEAD (40) characters of event. Defaulting to timestamp of previous event (Thu May 4 13:02:33 2023). 

I saw some different kind of logs are reporting to production splunk
Sample log of production:
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
+ New app   'esign-ec-api'                                                    +
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
+ Initializing app  'esign-ec-api'                                                    +
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
Pinging the JVM took 7 seconds to respond.
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
+ starting app  'esign-ec-api'                                                    +
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

[props]

Charset=UTF-8

TIME_PREFIX=^\w{4,7}\s+

TIME_FORMAT=%Y-%m-%d %H.%M.%S,%3N

MAX_TIMESTAMP_LOOKAHEAD=40

SHOULD_LINEMERGE=false

NO_BINARY_CHECK=true

TRUNCATE=50000

Pulldown_Type=True

LINE_BREAKER=([\r\n])\w+\s+\d+\-\d+\-\d+\s\d+\:\d+\:\d+

EXTRACT-field1=regex

EXTRACT-field2=regex

Thank You

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isoutamo
SplunkTrust
SplunkTrust

Hi

if that first part is your event,  then it haven’t any timestamp. For that reason your props.conf cannot match it.

r. Ismo

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jackin
Path Finder

How to avoid this kind of log from ingestion ?

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