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Extracting Date Fields

sseekamp
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If I am doing custom field extraction on an event should I name the fields the same as the default day, month, year, time, etc or does is matter?

I hate to duplicate fields that splunk is already trying to extract or is there a way to disable the automatic date/time extraction for events? What is recommended?

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Damien_Dallimor
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You could just specify your custom time extraction in props.conf

http://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/latest/admin/propsconf

Use the TIME_FORMAT property to specify a strptime pattern for your events.

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