I have a blog post on this subject: http://blog.hortonew.com/how-to-use-regex-rex-in-splunk
really good blog post thank you --
how to exclude the word exception from below query
this splunk query index = index Exception | rex ".?(?(?:\w+.)+\w?Exception).*"
| stats count by exception
result : Uncaught exception: no Access Rule found for key ---
java.lang.exception ..
this query catches the word exception as well but i'm not interested in work exception --
i am interested the following
java.io.IOException
java.lang.Exception
java.lang.IllegalAccessException
java.lang.reflect.InvocationTargetException
java.lang.RuntimeException
java.net.ConnectException,
java.net.SocketException
java.rmi.NoSuchObjectException
java.util.MissingResourceException
javax.ejb.NoSuchEJBException
javax.faces.application.ViewExpiredException
javax.faces.FacesException
regx field = _row "Failed*(?i