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This procedure is important due to two main reasons: if XpoLog process data prior to major configuration changes such as data patterns, data will be reconstructed using the new configuration after it was already processed. which may take time based on the environment sizing. In addition, in order to get optimized search and analysis results it is mandatory to to get data parsed properly (it is not mandatory to parse all log fields however at least ensure the date/time stamp is parsed properly and the rest of the log record can be under a single message field).
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