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Parsing logs from Python Docker container sent to Splunk HEC

reallyliri
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I'm sending all my docker containers logs to my local Splunk server.

One of these containers is running a Python server (using Flask/nginx).

For debugging and log file reasons, my Python logs are foramtted with a standard line: %(asctime)s - %(name)s - %(levelname)s - %(message)s

I can see the log line clearly in Splunk, however, I would also want to parse the timestamp, log-level etc. In addition, it seems that stack traces are split to multiple messages.

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Note that not all messages from the host sent to this server are from Python, but the other ones don't require additional formatting.

So:

  • How can I configure Splunk to parse my messages according to my log format?

  • How can I merge the stack trace logs to a single message (I'm guessing that it should be done on consuming)

  • Can I define formatting for the Python messages without damaging the 'other' messages?

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