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Turn off timestamp parsing

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Turn off timestamp parsing

One easy way to speed up Splunk's indexing performance is to skip timestamp parsing for each event. Instead, Splunk will just use the current system time as the timestamp of each incoming event.


etc/bundles/local/props.conf 

[source::source_not_to_timestamp]
DATETIME_CONFIG = CURRENT
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This documentation applies to the following versions of Splunk: 2.1 , 2.2 , 2.2.1 , 2.2.3 , 2.2.6 View the Article History for its revisions.


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