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How do I fix this : Failed to parse timestamp in first MAX_TIMESTAMP_LOOKAHEAD?

super_saiyan
Communicator

I've deployed below props to  extract the time splunk. There are WARN messages in splunkd logs as follows DateParserVerbose - Failed to parse timestamp in first MAX_TIMESTAMP_LOOKAHEAD (12) characters of event. Defaulting to timestamp of previous event. 

please refer to the below log 

 

Hounsaya     add_user      4               Thu Sep 15 10:09 - 26:39 (60+00:47)
 

Can you please help and let me know if i need to make any changes?

 

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super_saiyan
Communicator

Hi @richgalloway  Many thanks for your quick response. Below is my props.conf

 

TIME_PREFIX = (Sun|Mon|Tue|Wed|Thu|Fri|Sat)\s
 
TIME_FORMAT = %b %d %H:%M
 
NO_BINARY_CHECK = true
 
SHOULD_LINEMERGE = false
 
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richgalloway
SplunkTrust
SplunkTrust

That looks like it should work, but here's an alternative to try:

TIME_PREFIX = \d\s+
TIME_FORMAT = %a %b %d %H:%M
NO_BINARY_CHECK = true
SHOULD_LINEMERGE = false
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richgalloway
SplunkTrust
SplunkTrust

Please share the props.conf settings for the sorucetype, especially TIME_PREFIX, TIME_FORMAT, and MAX_TIMESTAMP_LOOKAHEAD.

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