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How do I extract the value of a field value in Splunk?

newsplnkr
Explorer

Hello all,

I am trying to get the value of a field from an event in Splunk. The event looks like follows:

message="abtest platform=\"Target\", [testName=\"test1\",testId=\"253041,\",experience=\"lefNavigation\"]"

For the above event, how could I do a count by "testName", "testId" and "experience"? Currently, when I do count by on the message source, value for the above fields come as a backslash() .

Thanks a LOT in advance!

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gcusello
SplunkTrust
SplunkTrust

Hi newsplnkr,
did you tried with this regex?

message\=\"abtest platform\=\\\"(?P<abtest_platform>[^\\]*)\\\",\s*\[testName\=\\\"(?P<testName>[^\\]*)\\\",testId\=\\\"(?P<testId>[^,]*),\\\",experience\=\\\"(?P<experience>[^\\]*)

you can test it at https://regex101.com/r/g5u6kU/1

Bye.
Giuseppe

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briancronrath
Contributor

In props.conf you should specify KV_MODE = auto_escaped for a sourcetype that has values like this

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