Hosted collector not capturing logs after collector name change

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Muthuramalingam P

• May 02, 2020 06:17

Hi,

I have a collector and three sources under the collector. Then decided to change the collector and source name due to some new collector are to be added and to maintain ease.

After changing the collector name, collector does not capturing any new logs and when i change the name to the original collector name again, it starts to capture it.

Does anything I missed to configure to change the collector name??

Thanks,

Muthuramalingam P

 

 

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  Kevin Sumo

  • May 09, 2020 01:13

  Changing the name of the Collector or a Source should not affect the collection of logs, but it will change the metadata assigned to any logs received so you will need to make sure and change any queries that use _collector=<name> or _source=<name> to ensure they use the new collector name otherwise you may not get any results. 

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  Andrew Angelopoulos

  • June 05, 2020 15:06

  I think I have a similar or the same questions. Turns out we have misnamed name value in user.properties... the same name was used multiple times.

  I have both removed the name key/value pair and tried a new name (the real host name),

  It does not appear as a new collector, even after a restart of the service or a reboot of the system.

  Thanks

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