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Why isn't the time being recognized?

ddrillic
Ultra Champion

A little bit strange as this time stamp is not being recognized -

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skoelpin
SplunkTrust
SplunkTrust

This is because you did not set your base configs in props.conf and Splunk is guessing at your time format.

You should add this to your indexer(s), restart the Splunkd service and it will work properly.

[sourcetype]
TIME_PREFIX = ^ 
TIME_FORMAT = %Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S.%3n

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skoelpin
SplunkTrust
SplunkTrust

This is because you did not set your base configs in props.conf and Splunk is guessing at your time format.

You should add this to your indexer(s), restart the Splunkd service and it will work properly.

[sourcetype]
TIME_PREFIX = ^ 
TIME_FORMAT = %Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S.%3n
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ddrillic
Ultra Champion

Great @skoelpin. So which format(s) is being detected without configurations?

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pradeepkumarg
Influencer

What does your props.conf look like? Particularly TIME_FORMAT ?

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ddrillic
Ultra Champion

nothing for now ; -)

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