How do you make it so an event field name doesn't overlap with Splunk default fields?

[zhatsispgx]

Hi there,

I have a dataset that writes a logfile that has a field named host in it by default. Is there a way to make it so this doesn't overlap with the default host field native to splunk?

{
  "_path": "http",
  "_system_name": "bro",
  "_write_ts": "2019-02-01T20:31:18.870431Z",
  "ts": "2019-02-01T20:31:18.870431Z",
  "uid": "CnqHw64mXtzgsYIRzh",
  "id.orig_h": "2.2.2.2",
  "id.orig_p": 59311,
  "id.resp_h": "1.1.1.1",
  "id.resp_p": 443,
  "trans_depth": 1,
  "method": "POST",
  "host": "api.mysite.com",
  "uri": "/api",
  "version": "1.1",
  "request_body_len": 70,
  "response_body_len": 60,
  "status_code": 200,
  "status_msg": "OK",
  "tags": [],
  "username": "someuserhere",
  "orig_fuids": [
    "FLFkoj3yoLCGlDZfy8"
  ],
  "orig_mime_types": [
    "text/json"
  ],
  "resp_fuids": [
    "FGsstvr5HRMsAZpD5"
  ],
  "resp_mime_types": [
    "text/json"
  ]
}

[woodcock]

If you are using INDEXED_EXTRACTIONS, then you are toast and you'll have to switch to traditional forwarding. If you are using KV_MODE=json then you will have to turn this off and create your own extractions or you can keep it on and use SEDCMD to modify the raw text with something like SEDCMD-host-to-eventhost = s/"host":/"eventhost"/ so that the automatic extraction name does not collide.

[chrisyounger]

Hi @zhatsispgx

So you could do it in your props.conf by using EVAL-api_host = host

or in the search by just extracting it again with a better name:

search| rex "host\"\s*:\s*\"(?<api_host>[^\"]+)" | table api_host

I hope this solves your problem