Environment

Connector version 8.x
Both Windows and Linux based.

Situation

There are many instances of the following error in the agent.log for SmartConnector. What is the cause of these errors?

[ERROR][default.com.arcsight.agent.loadable._DOSProtector][run] Field [requestUrl] truncated to [http://<longURLmessage>;] (message=3531, rawEvent=279, requestUrl=159809)
[ERROR][com.arcsight.agent.loadable._DOSProtector] [run]Field [deviceCustomString4] truncated to [powershell.exe -ExecutionPolicy Bypass -NoProfile -NonInteractive -File ...[cutoff]
[ERROR][com.arcsight.agent.loadable._DOSProtector] [run]Field [requestUrl] truncated to [https://ssbsync.smartadserver.com/api/sync?callerid=43&gdpr=0&gdpr_consent=cp7wqiqp7wqiqafc1benaresap...[cutoff]
[ERROR][com.arcsight.agent.loadable._DOSProtector] [run]Field [deviceCustomString4] truncated to [powershell.exe -ExecutionPolicy Bypass -NoProfile -NonInteractive -File "C:\ProgramData ...[cutoff]

DOSProtector can occur for many different event fields that are exceeding the limit.

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