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Field Extraction Struggle

sphiwee
Contributor

i have these log entries, and I'm trying to extract the underlined data as "Business_Process"

 

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i'm using the below regex, on geg101 it extracts just fine but on splunk it exctracts a huge chunk.

 rex field=_raw "\Drun\.name\D:\D(?<Business_Process>.+)\D,\Drun.u"

 

i get below result in splunk

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thambisetty
SplunkTrust
SplunkTrust

| rex “run\.name\”:\”(?<Business_Process>[^\”]+)”

don’t forget to replace double quotes from your keyboard. Double quotes may not match as I am typing from them my phone.

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thambisetty
SplunkTrust
SplunkTrust

| rex “run\.name\”:\”(?<Business_Process>[^\”]+)”

don’t forget to replace double quotes from your keyboard. Double quotes may not match as I am typing from them my phone.

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sphiwee
Contributor

having same issue, trying to extract red text

"run\.author\.fullname\D:\"(?<USER>.+\"\,\"r)"

 

 

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thambisetty
SplunkTrust
SplunkTrust

just advice - don't post actual data here.


| rex “run\.author\.fullname\”:\”(?<User>[^\”]+)”

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sphiwee
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Hi thanks for the advice, seem to be getting an error on that regex 

 

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thambisetty
SplunkTrust
SplunkTrust
| rex "run\.author\.fullname\":\"(?<User>[^\"]+)"

try now. the issue is with double quotes, as I had typed them from my phone.

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sphiwee
Contributor

Yes I figured it was that, sorry to be bothersome.. any idea how can i vizualize a relationship between  Business_Process and User ? i want to show in a cool way which user ran which business process 

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thambisetty
SplunkTrust
SplunkTrust

| stats values(Business_process) as business_process by User

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sphiwee
Contributor

wow thanks bro works perfectly, how can i learn to perfect my regex skills?

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richgalloway
SplunkTrust
SplunkTrust
Please share your sample data as text rather than a screen shot so people can test with it.
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