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Should an app's source-type prefixes be all lower-case or MixedCase?

Justin_Grant
Contributor

We're building an app for WebSphere. We're prefixing all the app's sourcetypes with "WebSphere:" to disambiguate them from other apps' sourcetypes.

Now we need to decide about lowercase or PascalCase for our sourcetype prefix.

Is it preferable to do "websphere:somesourcetype" or "WebSphere:somesourcetype"?

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hazekamp
Builder

For anything we have defined (other than windows logs) it has been lower case i.e. "sep:ids". Windows we went with PascalCase to conform with the default Splunk sourcetype of "WinEventLog". So for windows logs we have eventtypes of "Snare:Security" and "Monitorware:Security"

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