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Is it possible to do Line breaking and Event breaking in Universal Forwarder ?

human96
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Is it possible to do Line breaking and Event breaking in Universal Forwarder ?

 

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scelikok
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Hi @human96,

Universal Forwarders cannot parse events. Line breakers work on Indexer or Heavy Forwarders if they are receiving data from UF. Only EVENT_BREAKER setting works on UF, but this will only tell UF to tell where the events boundaries are and make it send full events to indexers. 

 

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