Using Results from Subquery

[hfalkmeyer]

We are feeding logs from a messaging middleware into our Splunk installation. Input and output logs for this middleware are respectively being stored with sourcetype flags app_input and app_output, with each app_input/app_output pair containing a common, alphanumeric transactionid contained in square brackets. We're trying to build a single line search that will result in a listing of ALL I/O log pairs for which either the app_input or app_output contains a specified string.

Attempting to solve this, we started with sourcetype=app_* some_search | rex "\[(?<transactionid>[A-Za-z0-9]+)\]\". Now, we'd like the search to continue using each extracted transactionid.

We've tried queries w. subqueries along the lines of sourcetype=app_* [ search sourcetype=app_* some_search | rex "\[(?<transactionid>[A-Za-z0-9]+)\]" | rename transactionid as query and others without luck.

Any assistance would be greatly appreciated.

Thank you in advance,

Harold Falkmeyer

[clara-fication · Accepted solution]

for this subsearch, try something like this:

sourcetype=app_* [ search sourcetype=app_* some_search | rex "\[(?<transactionid>[A-Za-z0-9]+)\]" | rename transactionid as query|table query|format]

as long as query is in your sourcetype=app_*. your subsearch needs to end with a field name that is in the base search.

[hfalkmeyer]

Worked like a charm. The missing component from my attempts was the table query. Thank you VERY much!!