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Unwanted line breaking when running a Python script

mrrci
Explorer

Hey there Splunk community. I'm new here and I would appreciate some help if it is possible.

I'm running a Python script that generates a 4 line event inside my Splunk app. The strange thing about it is that it always generates the same amount of characters (spread across 4 lines) and my events still break into 2 linecounts 20% of the time. I don't see any pattern whatsoever. Is there a way to solve this?

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VatsalJagani
SplunkTrust
SplunkTrust

@mrrci - Check your sourcetype's props.conf for line breaker and timestamp extraction.

[<your sourcetype>]
LINE_BREAKER = ([\n\r]+)\d{8}[\n\r]+
SHOULD_LINEMERGE = false
TRUNCATE = 100

 

Please also set the following parameters for timestamp extraction, if you have not set already.

TIME_PREFIX = regex of the text that leads up to the timestamp
MAX_TIMESTAMP_LOOKAHEAD = how many characters for the timestamp
TIME_FORMAT = strptime format of the timestamp

 

I hope this helps!! Upvote/Karma would be appreciated!!!!

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PickleRick
SplunkTrust
SplunkTrust

And how does your _time correspond to those events? Because at first glance I'd also suspect that Splunks tries automagically to "fit" some date format to your number and breaks "before timestamp".

VatsalJagani
SplunkTrust
SplunkTrust

@mrrci - Check your sourcetype's props.conf for line breaker and timestamp extraction.

[<your sourcetype>]
LINE_BREAKER = ([\n\r]+)\d{8}[\n\r]+
SHOULD_LINEMERGE = false
TRUNCATE = 100

 

Please also set the following parameters for timestamp extraction, if you have not set already.

TIME_PREFIX = regex of the text that leads up to the timestamp
MAX_TIMESTAMP_LOOKAHEAD = how many characters for the timestamp
TIME_FORMAT = strptime format of the timestamp

 

I hope this helps!! Upvote/Karma would be appreciated!!!!

burwell
SplunkTrust
SplunkTrust

Is there a timestamp on your lines?

Do you have props for this sourcetype?

mrrci
Explorer

Yes, I created a sourcetype.

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