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How to search keywords to identify in a field using regex?

sathiyasun
Explorer

How to match keywords to identify in a field using regex.

Our requirement is to capture the keywords that are (Liquor OR Casino OR Gambling OR Adult) which comes in a field.

somesoni2
Revered Legend

Try this. To extract a new field with the keyword and filter events where these keywords are present

index=foo sourcetype=bar (Liquor OR Casino OR Gambling OR Adult) | rex field=_raw "(?<somefield>(Liquor|Casino|Gambling|Adult))"
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