Splunk Search

How to refer to JSON array object in a Splunk search?

caagrawal
New Member

Hi,

I have a JSON data in following format. How can I access individual element of the array?

{ [-] 
    LICENSES: [ [-] 
      AFL and GPLv2+ 
      AFL or GPLv2 
      Apache 
      Apache 2.0 
 ]
}

If I write search: | table LICENSES{}, it prints all licenses, however, I want to access an individual element as in first license or 2nd license. If I do something like table LICESNES{0} or table LICENSES{}.{0} etc ..nothing works. Please help.

Tags (4)
0 Karma

asimagu
Builder

As far as I know, Splunk extracts the Json data into fields and by default the field names get the name after its corresponding trace in the Json object.

So, in your case LICENSES is a multivalue field , so in order to access each value you could do it like this

 | eval firstValue=mvIndex(LICENSES,0)  | eval secondValue=mvIndex(LICENSES,1) ....

and then table the results

... | table firstValue secondValue
Got questions? Get answers!

Join the Splunk Community Slack to learn, troubleshoot, and make connections with fellow Splunk practitioners in real time!

Meet up IRL or virtually!

Join Splunk User Groups to connect and learn in-person by region or remotely by topic or industry.

Get Updates on the Splunk Community!

Network to App: Observability Unlocked [May & June Series]

In today’s digital landscape, your environment is no longer confined to the data center. It spans complex ...

SPL2 Deep Dives, AppDynamics Integrations, SAML Made Simple and Much More on Splunk ...

Splunk Lantern is Splunk’s customer success center that provides practical guidance from Splunk experts on key ...

[Puzzles] Solve, Learn, Repeat: Matching cron expressions

This puzzle (first published here) is based on matching timestamps to cron expressions.All the timestamps ...