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Help with rex expression to capture time

xvxt006
Contributor

Hi,

i have an event like below after ms there is a line break and some other text.
i want to capture that time. i have tried the below expression but it did not work. Any suggestions?

INFO: Server will startup in 2131 ms
sdfsfsdfsdfsff

expression i have used: rex field=_raw "(?i) .? Server will startup in (?P.?)(?=ms)"

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sbrant_splunk
Splunk Employee
Splunk Employee

Just needed a slight adjustment to your regex:

(?P<fieldname>\d+)(?=\sms)

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xvxt006
Contributor

Thx for the input. i have tried the other solution and it worked.

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strive
Influencer

INFO: Server will startup in (.*)

I tried it in pythex and it worked

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sbrant_splunk
Splunk Employee
Splunk Employee

Just needed a slight adjustment to your regex:

(?P<fieldname>\d+)(?=\sms)

xvxt006
Contributor

Thx. This worked

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