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Unwanted fields are being extracted for search results

MadhuS1
Explorer

I am facing this problem since very beginning. By default fields are being extracted using delimiter '='.

For eg: if an event contains symbol equals "=" in raw text, left side of it will be considered as field name and right part will be treated as field value.

Does this come with default splunk settings? If so how i can manually disable this?
How can avoid seeing these unwanted fields being extracted?

I know we can easily avoid this by All fields ==> Coverage 1% or more. But i still see fields whose coverage is 100%.

Can somebody help me with this? Thanks

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martin_mueller
SplunkTrust
SplunkTrust

The default key-value-extraction can be turned off by setting KV_MODE = none in props.conf for that sourcetype.

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skoelpin
SplunkTrust
SplunkTrust

Why would you not want this?

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MadhuS1
Explorer

When you do search for a sourcetype, it shows more than 200 fields extracted from urls.
Also it confuses users having less experience on splunk.

In my case events are properly structured and i require no more additional fields.

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martin_mueller
SplunkTrust
SplunkTrust

The default key-value-extraction can be turned off by setting KV_MODE = none in props.conf for that sourcetype.

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MadhuS1
Explorer

Thanks martin

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