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Index Event Properly

shangshin
Builder

Hi,
The event in my Log always has a prefix yyyy-MM-dd hh:mm:ss,SSS e.g. 2013-07-30 07:12:11,649
To have the event indexed properly, can I use the line below in props.conf

   BREAK_ONLY_BEFORE=yyyy-MM-dd hh:mm:ss,SSS

Thanks for the advice!

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mloven_splunk
Splunk Employee
Splunk Employee

Nope. You're (kinda) mixing up BREAK_ONLY_BEFORE and TIME_FORMAT.

BREAK_ONLY_BEFORE is a regex field. Use something like:

BREAK_ONLY_BEFORE = \d{4}-\d{2}-\d{2}\s\d{2}:\d{2}:\d{2},\d{3}
TIME_FORMAT = %Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S,%3N

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mloven_splunk
Splunk Employee
Splunk Employee

Nope. You're (kinda) mixing up BREAK_ONLY_BEFORE and TIME_FORMAT.

BREAK_ONLY_BEFORE is a regex field. Use something like:

BREAK_ONLY_BEFORE = \d{4}-\d{2}-\d{2}\s\d{2}:\d{2}:\d{2},\d{3}
TIME_FORMAT = %Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S,%3N

shangshin
Builder

Thank you for the useful answer.

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shangshin
Builder

or
BREAK_ONLY_BEFORE=/d/d/d/d-/d/d-/d/d/ /d/d:/d/d:/d/d

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