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In-built field extraction not working - different delimiters

sunnyleofremont
New Member

Hello,

I am new to splunk and I trying to extract the fields using built-in feature.  Since the log format contain both the pipe as well as spaces, the in-built field extraction was unable to work. I was trying to extract the field before pipe as "name" , after pipe as "size" , after first space as "value" as shown in below.  I doesn't care about last values like 1547, 1458, 1887.   Any help would be appreciated.

 

Namesizevalue
abc-pendingcardtransfer-networki3077784791
log-incomingtransaction-datainpu378786821
dog-acceptedtransactions-incoming17465466
   

 

 

Sample Logs:

 

9/2/22 11:52:39.005 AM abc-pendingcardtransfer-networki|30 77784791 1547
9/2/22 11:50:39.005 AM log-incomingtransaction-datainpu|3 78786821 1458
9/2/22 11:45:39.005 AM [INFO] 2022-09-01 13:52:38.22 [main] ApacheInactivityMonitor - Number of input traffic is 25
9/2/22 11:44:39.005 AM dog-acceptedtransactions-incoming|1 7465466 1887

 

 

 

Thank You

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VatsalJagani
SplunkTrust
SplunkTrust

@sunnyleofremont - You could use the regex-based field extraction, either REPORT or EXTRACT. And below is the regex you can use for that. For temporary extraction in search, you can also use | rex command with the same regex.

\s+(?<Name>[^\n\s\\|]+)\|(?<size>[^\s\n\r]+)\s+(?<value>[^\s\n\r]+)\s+

https://regex101.com/r/AWNK3i/1 

 

I hope this helps!!! Kindly upvote if it does!!!

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yuanliu
SplunkTrust
SplunkTrust

As @VatsalJagani said, you are not limited to using delimiters in Splunk field extraction.  I just posted some screenshots from Splunk Web for a nearly identical data format here: https://community.splunk.com/t5/Splunk-Search/Tempory-output-storage/m-p/656753/highlight/true#M2268...

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