I have data coming in to splunk from a SQL Table and one of the columns in the table has a XML. Is there a way we can parse that XML and extract fields in splunk??
The XML is not always the same and keeps changing
If you can remove the cruft and ensure that the entire raw event is XML, then you can set KV_MODE
to xml
and it will automatically do dynamic field extraction. Short of that, you can do it manually using xpath
:
https://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/latest/SearchReference/Xpath
XMLKV command is more useful in this scenario. it automatically pulls all the xml fields and indexes them.
Look into the xpath command: https://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/latest/SearchReference/Xpath
Thanks for your message. I see xmlkv more useful for this scenario where the xml fields are automatically pulled.