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How to write regex to extract date related subfields from req_time?

dhavamanis
Builder

We have created new sourcetype (acquia_access_combined) by coping the existing sourcetype (access_combined) and added few fields. field values are extracting but the below fields are not showing up, Can you please help me to get these fields out of req_time,

date_hour
date_mday
date_minute
date_month
date_second
date_wday
date_year
date_zone

Log Format configured is :

REGEX = ^[[nspaces:logfilename]]\s++[[nspaces:nodename]]\s++[[nspaces:clientip]]\s++[[nspaces:ident]]\s++[[nspaces:user]]\s++[[sbstring:req_time]]\s++[[access-request]]\s++[[nspaces:status]]\s++[nspaces:bytes]?[[all:other]]

1 Solution

somesoni2
Revered Legend

Based on the sample logs you shared in your prev question.

varnishncsa bal-1234 1.48.1.2 - - [22/Aug/2014:15:04:45 +0000] "GET http://www.test.com/error HTTP/1.1" 404 30041 "http://www.test.com/test" "Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_9_4) AppleWebKit/537.78.2 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/7.0.6 Safari/537.78.2" 0.090000868 miss pass request_id="v-a732c002-2a0d-11e4-88b7-12313d2d8c3b" "-"

try adding following to your sourcetype definition in props.conf

[acquia_varnish_log]
...other entries...
TIME_FORMAT = %d/%b/%Y:%H:%M:%S %z 
TIME_PREFIX = \[

Update:

The entries looks good to me. Can try this workaround (setup calculated fields )

[acquia_varnish_log]
    ...other entries...
EVAL-date_hour = strftime(_time,"%H")
EVAL-date_mday = strftime(_time,"%d")
EVAL-date_minute = strftime(_time,"%M")
EVAL-date_month = strftime(_time,"%H")
EVAL-date_second = strftime(_time,"%S")
EVAL-date_wday = strftime(_time,"%A")
EVAL-date_year = strftime(_time,"%Y")
EVAL-date_zone = strftime(_time,"%z")

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somesoni2
Revered Legend

Based on the sample logs you shared in your prev question.

varnishncsa bal-1234 1.48.1.2 - - [22/Aug/2014:15:04:45 +0000] "GET http://www.test.com/error HTTP/1.1" 404 30041 "http://www.test.com/test" "Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_9_4) AppleWebKit/537.78.2 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/7.0.6 Safari/537.78.2" 0.090000868 miss pass request_id="v-a732c002-2a0d-11e4-88b7-12313d2d8c3b" "-"

try adding following to your sourcetype definition in props.conf

[acquia_varnish_log]
...other entries...
TIME_FORMAT = %d/%b/%Y:%H:%M:%S %z 
TIME_PREFIX = \[

Update:

The entries looks good to me. Can try this workaround (setup calculated fields )

[acquia_varnish_log]
    ...other entries...
EVAL-date_hour = strftime(_time,"%H")
EVAL-date_mday = strftime(_time,"%d")
EVAL-date_minute = strftime(_time,"%M")
EVAL-date_month = strftime(_time,"%H")
EVAL-date_second = strftime(_time,"%S")
EVAL-date_wday = strftime(_time,"%A")
EVAL-date_year = strftime(_time,"%Y")
EVAL-date_zone = strftime(_time,"%z")

somesoni2
Revered Legend

Thanks @kristian for pointing that out. Just updated the same.

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kristian_kolb
Ultra Champion

regex is not supported for TIME_FORMAT. Change the '\s' for a ' ', i.e. a blank.

/k

dhavamanis
Builder

Thanks, I have tried adding the TIME_FORMAT, but still its not extracting the required fields. please correct me if anything wrong.

[acquia_varnish_log]
MAX_TIMESTAMP_LOOKAHEAD = 128
REPORT-access = acquia-access-extractions
SHOULD_LINEMERGE = False
TIME_FORMAT = %d/%b/%Y:%H:%M:%S\s%z
TIME_PREFIX = \[
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