Splunk DB Connect 2: How to convert DB input data obtained using dbxquery from JSON format to key value format?

[dsuryaavinash]

The default format of the results obtained using “dbxquery” has changed to JSON format. Can you please advise us on how to convert the DB results we get using the dbxquery command to the column name=Key and rown=Value format? Any config file changes will accomplish this task to get data as retrieved in DB Connect 1?

[hsesterhenn]

Hi,

in addition, to get a table again, you can add two commands:

...| fields -_raw | table *

Even if the raw events are still displayed as a JSON object with long names you'll get a table like with DBConnect 1.x (and short column names).

HTH,

Holger

[mweissha · Accepted solution]

Have you tried using the shortnames argument for dbxquery?

eg: |dbxquery connection="whatever" query="SELECT%20id,name%20FROM%20table" shortnames=x | dedup name

I'm not sure if this helps to answer but it worked for me to identify fields from dbxquery which you can then manipulate using SPL with things like dedup, sort, etc. It doesn't seem to matter what you assign to shortnames, you'll notice if you run the search that your SQL results will be assigned as fields instead of JSON data.

http://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/DBX/2.0.4/DeployDBX/Commands

[nyc_jason]

in v2.2 you can also add the argument output=csv which will omit the _raw and _time fields.

|dbxquery connection="whatever" query="SELECT%20id,name%20FROM%20table" output=csv shortnames=true | dedup name

[dsuryaavinash]

Thank you , Wow that worked , i somehow missed it

[mweissha]

You're welcome. Glad it worked. I was scratching my head for a few days myself before I ran into that solution.