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How to mvzip two JSON Arrays

druid1123
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I am trying to find frequently used search filters from my application log.

I have written a below query to extract a json from the log and store it in the search_filter variable

index="*" "Searching records" 
| rex field=_raw "(?P<search_filter>\{.*\})"
| eval search_filter=replace(search_filter,"\\\\\"","\"")

The resulting json in the search_filter variable for one event looks like below

{
"pageSize": 0,
"offset": 0,
"criteria":[
{
"field": "status",
"operator": "equalsIgnoreCase",
"values":["REPROCESS"]
},
{
"field": "id",
"operator": "equals",
"values":["352353"]
}]
}

Now I want to convert this json in the below format and then finally sort this array and list it in the table ordered by count.

[status##equalsIgnoreCase,id##equals]

I tried doing the below 

index="*" "Searching records" 
| rex field=_raw "(?P<search_filter>\{.*\})"
| eval search_filter=replace(search_filter,"\\\\\"","\"")
| eval cfo=json_extract(search_filter, "criteria{}.field", "criteria{}.operator")
| eval cf=json_extract(cfo,"{0}")
| eval co=json_extract(cfo,"{1}")
| eval cfos=mvzip(cf, co, "##")

This results in cfos are like this which is not what I want. I am not able to use mvzip on the json array.

["status","id"]##["equalsIgnoreCase","equals"]

 Any suggestions on how to go about it or is there a better way in finding  frequently used filters in my scenario.

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ITWhisperer
SplunkTrust
SplunkTrust

You could try using spath and mvexpand to separate the criteria into different events

| makeresults
| eval search_filter="{
 \"pageSize\": 0,
 \"offset\": 0,
 \"criteria\":[
   {
     \"field\": \"status\",
     \"operator\": \"equalsIgnoreCase\",
     \"values\":[\"REPROCESS\"]
  },
  {
    \"field\": \"id\",
    \"operator\": \"equals\",
    \"values\":[\"352353\"]
  }]
}"
| spath input=search_filter criteria{} output=criteria
| mvexpand criteria
| spath input=criteria
| rename values{} as values
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