Getting Data In

JSON input not splitting up in single line

rishma
Explorer

I am using API to fetch the JSON logs and sending JSON output to Splunk. Props.conf is on the search head.

I am seeing the intermittent issues of not splitting the JSON logs even though I am sending one by one JSON objects via scripting.

Json payload :

{"test": "emailid", "remote": "13.17.14.2", "guide": "05773-56-C2-E9", "test1": "testing", "date": "2019-12-13T19:05:03.836+00:00", "sessionID": "abc1"}
{"remote": "13.7.4.28", "guide": "05773-56-C2-E9", "test1": "testing", "date": "2019-12-13T19:05:03.836+00:00", "sessionID": "abc1"}

Props.conf is :

INDEXED_EXTRACTIONS = JSON
BREAK_ONLY_BEFORE_DATE=false
BREAK_ONLY_BEFORE=(\{\"|\"\})
MUST_BREAK_AFTER=\"\}

Please guide.

I tried including SHOULD_LINEMERGE = false

But it didnt work.

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woodcock
Esteemed Legend

Never use the BREAK_* settings; always do it like this (these are the only breaking settings required):

SHOULD_LINEMERGE = false
LINE_BREAKER = \"\}(\s*[\r\n]+\s*)(?:\{\")|(?:\"\})
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to4kawa
Ultra Champion
| makeresults 
| eval _raw= "{\"test\": \"emailid\" , \"remote\": \"13.17.14.2\", \"guide\": \"05773-56-C2-E9\", \"test1\": \"testing\", \"date\": \"2019-12-13T19:05:03.836+00:00\", \"sessionID\": \"abc1\"}" 
| appendpipe 
    [| eval _raw="{\"remote\": \"13.7.4.28\", \"guide\": \"05773-56-C2-E9\", \"test1\": \"testing\", \"date\": \"2019-12-13T19:05:03.836+00:00\", \"sessionID\": \"abc1\"}" ] 
| eval _time=strptime(spath(_raw,"date"),"%Y-%m-%dT%H:%M:%S.%Q%:z")
| spath

If it is a search, it can be extracted correctly.

why-would-indexed-extractionsjson-in-propsconf

How about using this as a reference?

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rishma
Explorer

Its intermittent issue. The data is different in each payload. Can it be done while indexing rather than searching. Please guide.

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to4kawa
Ultra Champion

Sorry, I don’t know how.

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