SQL Audit Logs shows up garbled in Sumo Logic.

Problem:

I am trying to ingest SQL Audit logs as a Local File Source but it doesn't show the data in the correct format and shows garbled log messages.

Resolution:

It seems like an encoding issue. When you try to ingest data using a Local File source into Sumo Logic, log data within that file suppose to be a valid encoding format, we have a list of encoding formats which Sumo Logic is supporting. 

Source Log Encoding: 

The type of log encoding supported by Sumo Logic depends on the source you are using.

Local file sources:

Local file sources support the following encoding:

• US-ASCII
• UTF-8 (default)
• UTF-16
• UTF-16BE
• UTF-16LE
• UTF-32
• UTF-32BE
• UTF-LE

For more information, see Local File Source.

Ingest your log data in either of the above encoding formats, which will take care of the issue.