A customer has a heavy forwarder (A) that is forwarding logs to my local heavy forwarder (B). I have no control over heavy forwarder A and would like to use props.conf to perform source and sourcetype specific processing/rewriting (fx using SEDCMD) on heavy forwarder B before sending the events to a syslog server.
I am having difficulties in getting the forwarded events to go through local processing - if I use _SYSLOG_FORWARDING in the inputs.conf - then the events seem to bypass the local processing and go directly to the output.
I have tried to specify queue = parsingQueue (even though this is the default) but it doesn't seem to have any effect.
How can I get the event forwarded from the customer heavy forwarder A to go through the processing stages on heavy forwarder B?
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