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Counting xml tags in raw event

ajaysamantbms
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my event records are xml based as shown below coming in from one file, one sourcetype-
12........
..... // inside transaction tag i can contain anything
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I am able to extract child tags inside each one - thats not an issue.
But how do i count how many records were of type Transaction and how many were of type Error.

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somesoni2
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Try following

sourcetype=gatewaylogs1 |  rex "^\<(?<eventType>[^\>]+)" | stats count by eventType

This should give your count of event for transaction/error.

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somesoni2
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Try following

sourcetype=gatewaylogs1 |  rex "^\<(?<eventType>[^\>]+)" | stats count by eventType

This should give your count of event for transaction/error.

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lguinn2
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Try this

sourcetype=gatewaylogs1 "<transaction>" OR "<error>" 
| eval type=case (match(_raw,"\<transaction\>", "Transaction",  match(_raw,"\<error\>", "Error")
| stats count by type

if the transaction contains an XML error field, it will be counted only as a transaction, not as an error

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lguinn2
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Well, your search isn't filtering out anything, so it will certainly have all the events from gatewaylogs1. I have updated the search. But not sure yet if it will work.

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ajaysamantbms
Explorer

Tried this

sourcetype=gatewaylogs1 | eval type=case ( match(_raw,"<error>"), "Error", match(_raw,"<transaction>"), "Transaction" ) | stats count by type

No errors...but no output..all it says 16 events..shows number of events..16 events (before 12/16/13 11:25:23.000 AM ) but no output in Statistics tab

And 16 is total events including events that has tags which i wanted to filter..so this query is really not doing anything..

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somesoni2
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how are you extracting fields? Using regular expression for each field or using spath?

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