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How to extract text from Message field

HMIPowell
Explorer

This should be something simple to figure out, but I can't get it to work.  I want to extract username from Message field of Sec Event Log

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HMIPowell
Explorer

I was able to use the following to get what I needed.

| rex field=Message "\S*user (?<TestField>\S*)"

Thanks for some of the ideas

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dhirendra761
Contributor
| makeresults 
| eval Message="NPS Extension for Azure MFA: CID: 6gof474f-4g9d-894f-asb-9abffedxs618 : Access Accepted for user Barry.Allen@LexLIndustries.org with Azure MFA response: Success and message: session r334r562-cf4f-7584-afc5-essdfs4dd67"
| rex field=Message "user (?<email>.*) with"
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HMIPowell
Explorer

I was able to use the following to get what I needed.

| rex field=Message "\S*user (?<TestField>\S*)"

Thanks for some of the ideas

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vaishalireddy
New Member

What is <TestField> here?

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96nick
Communicator

Hey HMIPowell,

If your goal was to do this at search time (meaning in your search) you will use the rex command to accomplish this. There are multiple ways to do the regex and the final solution will depend on what the other logs in your search look like. One way to accomplish this field extraction is to use lookaheads and lookbehinds.

 

| yoursearch

| rex field=Message "((?<email>)?<=user)(.+?(?=with))"

| restofsearch

This will extract the email field by taking the text between (and not including) the words 'user' and 'with'. This may not work in your environment if other similar logs are present.

 

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