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Extract domains from raw data into a new field and create a table with count

lilvermi
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I have raw data, I would like to search for domains within the data, output it to a field and then run stats to show a count of each unique domain. 

Example of raw data:

"This investigation is really great and we found the suspicious domain google.com"

I would like to:
1. search for domains within raw data and output the domain to a field that I can show in a table (Lets call it "Domain")
2. run stats that show the number of occurrences

So ideally, my finished result would be:

Domaincount
google.com50
yahoo.com30

 

Any assistance is greatly appreciated, thank you. 

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bowesmana
SplunkTrust
SplunkTrust

Key is how to recognise a domain. You can google for regex to extract domains and get some examples, but this search will show you how to get started

| makeresults
| eval d=split("google.com,abc.net.au,bbc.co.uk,google.com,splunk.com,www.nytimes.com", ",")
| mvexpand d
| rex field=d "(?<domain>(?:[a-z0-9](?:[a-z0-9-]{0,61}[a-z0-9])?\.)+[a-z0-9][a-z0-9-]{0,61}[a-z0-9])"
| stats count by domain

In your example, use rex field=_raw rather than 'd' in the above.

If you might have more than one domain in your raw data then add the 'max_match=0' to the rex statement

 

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