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Fair point - that was a bit of a 'what have the Romans ever done for us' moment.

Well, AFAIK I'm not allowed to make changes in ES to enable dynamic mapping, so thats one option (and has been suggested as a fix in several places) Another option is that better data typing is implemented in LogStash, or in the Kibana UI. I know NLS is just LogStash and Kibana with nice UI and inte...

Hi, I have a problem that has been talked about a lot with the ELK stack but I can't find any guidance here on it. I have used kv in my filters to split out an unknown number of key/value pairs from my logs (from the extension in CEF messages) and when I look at the raw output I can see what should ...

I know this is a question I could easily check in a test environment but I don't have one and I don't want to test in production :) We have a lot of devices that get added and we want to monitor them in Splunk the same day. Spunk relies on the CURRENT HOST STATE in the log files and I believe this i...

Yeah, that's what I thought too. Easier said than done on a switch though, or a wireless AP, except for maybe snmp traps. These kind of have to be actively polled

The problem for me is that the parent changes quite often - we have temporary sites where, for example, ten switches are behind a firewall, and using check_by_ssh to the firewall I am checking they are reachable behind the firewall. Next week they are behind a different firewall. I didnt want to cha...

I am trying to write checks that refer to a parent. In its most simplistic form, that would mean a check where the host pings its parent The reason I want to find an 'easy' way to do this is that I would only have to define a host as a child of a parent and the checks would "update". And m...