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Why is MV_ADD=true extracting everything twice and producing duplicates in my search results?

ejharts2015
Communicator

My Event:

Directory: /var/tmp/.X11-unix
  Mtime    : 2015-01-06 06:26:36 +0000        | 2016-01-04 15:31:39 +0000
  Ctime    : 2015-01-06 06:26:36 +0000        | 2016-01-04 15:31:39 +0000
  Inode    : 12                               | 393217

Props.conf (the relevant stuff):

source::.../aide.log]
sourcetype = aide

#Configuration for the new sourcetype
[aide]
pulldown_type = TRUE
SHOULD_LINEMERGE = TRUE
MAX_EVENTS  = 1000
KV_MODE = none
DATETIME_CONFIG =  NONE
MAX_TIMESTAMP_LOOKAHEAD = 0 
REPORT-extract_changes = extract_changes

Transforms:

#Extract each field pair from detailed message:
[extract_changes]
REGEX = ^\s\s(\w+)\s*:\s([^|]+)\|\s([^\n]+)\n*
FORMAT = value::$1 old_value::$2 new_value::$3
MV_ADD=true

These give me twice the results I would expect, can't figure out why:
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1 Solution

ejharts2015
Communicator

I feel kind of stupid now, but the issue was with my original search, I had been using:

Wrong Search:

index="aide_index" | extract reload=t | search "Socket" | table _time _raw, value, old_value, new_value

Correct Search:

index="aide_index" | search "Socket" | table _time _raw, value, old_value, new_value

I forgot to remove extract reload=t after refreshing the new transforms.conf file... so it was parsing all those fields twice.

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richgalloway
SplunkTrust
SplunkTrust

What is the search you are using to produce the results?

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ejharts2015
Communicator

I feel kind of stupid now, but the issue was with my original search, I had been using:

Wrong Search:

index="aide_index" | extract reload=t | search "Socket" | table _time _raw, value, old_value, new_value

Correct Search:

index="aide_index" | search "Socket" | table _time _raw, value, old_value, new_value

I forgot to remove extract reload=t after refreshing the new transforms.conf file... so it was parsing all those fields twice.

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