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[Time Extraction] EventTime extraction for log file with event having different time fileds

rbal_splunk
Splunk Employee
Splunk Employee

In one log file, we have data format that different for Event time:

i) For this we would like "time":1544476509062 to be extracted as the event type:

{"type":"transaction", "time":1544476509062, "path":"/healthcheckbalance", "protocol":"https", "protocolSrc":"8075", "duration":0, "status":"success", "serviceContexts":[], "customMsgAtts":{}, "correlationId":"5dd70e5ca4224df8175513e2", "legs":[]}

ii) For this we need to exatract event date from "leg":0, "timestamp":1544476508996

{"type":"transaction", "time":1544476509047, "path":"/creditos/v1/lis", "protocol":"https", "protocolSrc":"8065", "duration":51, "status":"success", "serviceContexts":[{"service":"creditos", "monitor":true, "client":"28ebc792-a5fa-4ec7-b2e4-fe3a98c7d52c", "org":"Canais_Internos", "app":"Super App", "method":"GET /lis", "status":"success", "duration":29}], "customMsgAtts":{}, "correlationId":"5cd70e5c9c22d31f411c8a9d", "legs":[{"uri":"/creditos/v1/lis", "status":200, "statustext":"OK", "method":"GET", "vhost":null, "wafStatus":0, "bytesSent":755, "bytesReceived":1014, "remoteName":"10.28.67.235", "remoteAddr":"10.28.67.235", "localAddr":"10.28.72.157", "remotePort":"37672", "localPort":"8065", "sslsubject":null, "leg":0, "timestamp":1544476508996, "duration":51, "serviceName":"creditos", "subject":"28ebc792-a5fa-4ec7-b2e4-fe3a98c7d52c", "operation":"GET /lis", "type":"http", "finalStatus":"Pass"}, {"uri":"/creditos/v1/lis", "status":200, "statustext":"OK", "method":"GET", "vhost":null, "wafStatus":0, "bytesSent":1043, "bytesReceived":873, "remoteName":"172.16.88.66", "remoteAddr":"172.16.88.66", "localAddr":"10.28.72.157", "remotePort":"80", "localPort":"40090", "sslsubject":null, "leg":1, "timestamp":1544476509019, "duration":27, "serviceName":"creditos", "subject":"28ebc792-a5fa-4ec7-b2e4-fe3a98c7d52c", "operation":"GET /lis", "type":"http", "finalStatus":null}]}

iii) Eventtime will be as per "logCreationTime":"2018-12-10 19:15:02.283"
{"type":"header", "logCreationTime":"2018-12-10 19:15:02.283", "hostname":"fa163e4631ael03.ctmm1.prod.cloud.ihf", "domainId":"330f4a77-989c-4f70-8184-8f6a2ca44da9", "groupId":"group-2", "groupName":"GtwInterno", "serviceId":"instance-100", "serviceName":"GtwInstance_28_72_157", "version":"v7.5.3-Internal"}

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rbal_splunk
Splunk Employee
Splunk Employee

1. Props.conf Configuration

[json_two_timeformat]
INDEXED_EXTRACTIONS = json
SHOULD_LINEMERGE = false
KV_MODE = none
TIME_PREFIX = (\"time\":|\"logCreationTime\")
MAX_TIMESTAMP_LOOKAHEAD = 1000
DATETIME_CONFIG = /etc/system/local/datetime_json_three_timeformats.xml

2. Create the etc/system/local/datetime_json_three_timeformats.xml

<!-- SPLUNK_HOME/etc/system/local/datetime_json_three_timeformats.xml -->

<datetime>

<define name="_utcepoch_leg0" extract="utcepoch, subsecond">
    <text><![CDATA[\d{13},\s+.*? \"leg\":0, \"timestamp\":(\d{10})(\d{3})]]></text>
</define>

<define name="_utcepoch_time" extract="utcepoch, subsecond">
   <text><![CDATA[(\d{10})(\d{3}), .* \"legs\":\[\]]]></text>
</define>

<define name="logCreationTime" extract="year, month, day, hour, minute, second, subsecond">
   <text><![CDATA[(\d{4})-(\d{2})-(\d{2})\s+(\d{2}):(\d{2}):(\d{2})\.(\d{3})]]></text>
</define>


<timePatterns>
    <use name="_utcepoch_leg0"/>
    <use name="_utcepoch_time"/>
    <use name="logCreationTime"/>
</timePatterns>
<datePatterns>
    <use name="_utcepoch_leg0"/>
    <use name="_utcepoch_time"/>
    <use name="logCreationTime"/>
</datePatterns>


</datetime>

```

3. Restart splunk

4. Ingest sample files
$SPLUNK_HOME/bin/splunk add oneshot json_two_timeformat.log -sourcetype json_two_timeformat

5. Results:

$ ./bin/splunk search "index=test01 sourcetype=json_two_timeformat | spath path=legs{}.timestamp output=legs_timestamp | eval legs0_timestamp=mvindex(legs_timestamp, 0) | eval T=_time | table _time T legs0_timestamp time"

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