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Splunk and syslog - help needed

itsy101
New Member

"no-priority-stripping" is set to False by default.    I'm sure there's a good reason for that, but Splunk doesn't seem to index the priorities before stripping them, which makes it difficult for me to narrow down events.  I've tried "anomalies" and a couple of other search modifiers, but I still get results I don't need (e.g. non-important maillog entries).

Any ideas, how do others do it ?

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sdaniels
Splunk Employee
Splunk Employee

It needs to be set to true.

[udp://514]
no_priority_stripping = true

This will keep your priority field on any syslog events indexed into splunk via udp port 514. This won't work for TCP syslog though.

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