I was recently at a client site for a two-week engagement assisting them with ramping up their Splunk installation, and I came across something particularly interesting. One of the log files the client wanted to index in Splunk contained four different log formats with four different timestamps. Take a look at a sample of the log:
OH NO!! Splunking log files with multiple formats?? No problem!
              Posted by Rupak Pandya
              on Thursday, January 24, 2013 - 14:07
              Operational Intelligence, Best Practices Big data, Data Inputs, Machine data, props.conf, Splunk, Timestamps, Web Analytics
              
            
           
          
 
      



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