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Dropping blank paths in a JSON search

brutecat
Path Finder

Hi,

I am doing some experimentation wirh regards JSON events. I have two events loaded:

{
"event":
{
"time": "2019-02-10T05:52:03",
"StatsMonitor": {
"time": "2019-02-10T05:52:03",
"name": "StatsMonitor",
"LocalTimetDelta": 0,
"CaptureTimetDelta": 0,
"DeltaTimeAuditLog": 0,
"ActiveUsers": 26
}
}

}

and

{
"action":
{
"StatsMonitor": {
"time": "2019-02-10T05:52:03",
"name": "StatsMonitor",
"LocalTimetDelta": 0,
"CaptureTimetDelta": 0,
"DeltaTimeAuditLog": 0,
"ActiveUsers": 26
}
}
,
"action":
{
"StatsMonitorx": {
"time": "2019-01-10T06:52:03",
"name": "StatsMonitor",
"LocalTimetDelta": 0,
"CaptureTimetDelta": 0,
"DeltaTimeAuditLog": 0,
"ActiveUsers": 52
}
}

}

The index I am using is 'conship'

I have a search:

index=conship | spath
path=event.StatsMonitor
| rename event.time as time, event.StatsMonitor.* as *
| table time ActiveUsers

which is returning both events as results, but has duplicate data coming from the first (which is the correct data).

I would have thought:

spath path=event.StatsMonitor

would have eliminated the data altogether from the second event. Perhaps I could get a blank line, but why am I getting a duplicate from the correct event.

Thanks,

Stan

Tags (3)
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poete
Builder

Hello @brutecat,

the bellow does the trick

| makeresults 
| eval _raw="{
          \"event\":
                 {
                 \"time\": \"2019-02-10T05:52:03\",
                  \"StatsMonitor\": {
                          \"time\": \"2019-02-10T05:52:03\",
                          \"name\": \"StatsMonitor\",
                          \"LocalTimetDelta\": 0,
                          \"CaptureTimetDelta\": 0,
                          \"DeltaTimeAuditLog\": 0,
                          \"ActiveUsers\": 26
                     }
                 },
          \"action\":
                 {
                      \"StatsMonitor\": {
                          \"time\": \"2019-02-10T05:52:03\",
                          \"name\": \"StatsMonitor\",
                          \"LocalTimetDelta\": 0,
                          \"CaptureTimetDelta\": 0,
                          \"DeltaTimeAuditLog\": 0,
                          \"ActiveUsers\": 26
                     }
                 }
                 ,
         \"action\":
                 {
                      \"StatsMonitor\": {
                          \"time\": \"2019-01-10T06:52:03\",
                          \"name\": \"StatsMonitor\",
                          \"LocalTimetDelta\": 0,
                          \"CaptureTimetDelta\": 0,
                          \"DeltaTimeAuditLog\": 0,
                          \"ActiveUsers\": 52
                     }
                 }

     }"
| spath
| rename event.time as time
| spath path=event
| rename event.StatsMonitor.* as *
| table time ActiveUsers
0 Karma

kamlesh_vaghela
SplunkTrust
SplunkTrust

@brutecat

Can you please share sample events using precode block (101010 in text editor) ?

0 Karma

brutecat
Path Finder
    {
         "event":
                {
                "time": "2019-02-10T05:52:03",
                 "StatsMonitor": {
                         "time": "2019-02-10T05:52:03",
                         "name": "StatsMonitor",
                         "LocalTimetDelta": 0,
                         "CaptureTimetDelta": 0,
                         "DeltaTimeAuditLog": 0,
                         "ActiveUsers": 26
                    }
                }


    }

AND
    {
         "action":
                {
                     "StatsMonitor": {
                         "time": "2019-02-10T05:52:03",
                         "name": "StatsMonitor",
                         "LocalTimetDelta": 0,
                         "CaptureTimetDelta": 0,
                         "DeltaTimeAuditLog": 0,
                         "ActiveUsers": 26
                    }
                }
                ,
        "action":
                {
                     "StatsMonitorx": {
                         "time": "2019-01-10T06:52:03",
                         "name": "StatsMonitor",
                         "LocalTimetDelta": 0,
                         "CaptureTimetDelta": 0,
                         "DeltaTimeAuditLog": 0,
                         "ActiveUsers": 52
                    }
                }


    }
0 Karma

brutecat
Path Finder

Sorry - I realise the search was also cobbled. The asterisk was dropped:

index=conship | spath 
path=event.StatsMonitor
| rename event.time as time, event.StatsMonitor.* as *
| table time ActiveUsers
0 Karma
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