Summary Index Issues - Splunk Enterprise Troubleshooting Use Case - 22

14.06.24 07:23 PM - By Murugan

Summary Index Issues:

Issue: 
Timestamp is not extracted properly for the summary index (JSON data copied using collect command)

index=web_idx ......
| collect index="web_summary_idx"

Root cause: 
Default sourcetype of the copied events is "stash". It may not be able to recognize the timestamps in JSON data correctly, so current time is assigned to the events.

index=web_idx ......
| collect index="web_summary_idx"

Solution: 
Specify the original sourcetype when using the "collect" command with JSON events.

index=web_idx ...
collect index="web_summary_idx" sourcetype="web_json"

Note: Changing the sourcetype from "stash" to a different one, leads to license consumption.

Murugan