After setting this aside until we finally upgraded splunk, a solution has been found. Working with splunk support for weeks, we were not able to fix it directly and concluded that the errors are due to splunk trying to read the files before they are done being written by our diode software. The files are transferred once every 24 hours, so I created a script run by a scheduled task that copies the files to a different set of folders and set up batch inputs to read then delete the copies. All logs come through without any extra junk. Thanks for your help! @yeahnah @isoutamo
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