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How to get spath to auto_extract the fields

riotto
Path Finder

I have events that will be indexed that will look like the below:

2019-06-06 21:12:40.397 { "response": "NodeJST5109TIJPMCACS0700099901DIGITALFUSANodeJST5109ACEQ1TU1", "elapsedTime": 347 }

I would like to extract the elapsedTime field where it is greater than 5000
I cannot seem to get spath to auto_extract the fields so that I can get the events ...where elapsedTime > 5000

This should be straightforward, but I cannot get it to work...any help will be appreciated

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kamlesh_vaghela
SplunkTrust
SplunkTrust

@riotto

Your events having a mixture of text & JSON. SO we have to extract a field from that JSON part. Can you please try this?

YOUR_SEARCH | rex field=_raw "(?<json_data>\{.+\})" 
| eval _raw=json_data 
| kv | where elapsedTime > 5000 | table elapsedTime

My Sample Search:

| makeresults 
| eval _raw="2019-06-06 21:12:40.397 { \"response\": \"NodeJST5109TIJPMCACS0700099901DIGITALFUSANodeJST5109ACEQ1TU1\", \"elapsedTime\": 347 }" 
| append [ | makeresults | eval _raw="2019-06-06 21:12:40.397 { \"response\": \"NodeJST5109TIJPMCACS0700099901DIGITALFUSANodeJST5109ACEQ1TU1\", \"elapsedTime\": 5347 }" ]
| rex field=_raw "(?<json_data>\{.+\})" 
| eval _raw=json_data 
| kv | where elapsedTime > 5000 | table elapsedTime

Thanks

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badarsebard
Communicator

The spath command works on an input field, _raw by default. You'll need to have your JSON object extracted to a field you can reference via spath input=<fieldname>.

Alternatively, if you have access to the application change the log format to be something friendlier.

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riotto
Path Finder

Do you have an example I can try for the above event? I can't seem to get something right on it...

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