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Having Splunk use a Unique Log Entry ID

cid_tangogroup
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As part of logging events from our application we add a unique GUID to the event stream is there a way to tell spunk that this is a unique id and never import two events with the same GUID field value as they would be duplicates?

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lguinn2
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There is no way to tell Splunk that a field should not have duplicate values.

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