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Duplicate event

JANR
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Splunk shows duplicate events in search results when there are no duplicates in the source file.

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richgalloway
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How does the data get from the source file to Splunk?  If there are multiple readers then there could be duplicate data.

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isoutamo
SplunkTrust
SplunkTrust

Hi

or is this data structured like json and you have both INDEXED_EXTRACTION and KV_MODE defined?

r. Ismo

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