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Is there a way to to further extractions from an existing search time extraction using props.conf or transforms.conf?

splunkto
Explorer

Currently I'm doing an extraction on a log file like so:

[AUDIT_PARSE]
REGEX = \x5b[^\x5d]+\x5d\s+(\w+)\s+(?:\x7b([^\x7d]+)\x7d){0,1}\x2d\s+(.*)
FORMAT = level::$1 log_source::$2 message::$3

One of the extracted fields you see is 'message', which itself has a number of key value pairs. I then want to take the extracted 'message', and parse those pairs.

[AUDIT_MESSAGE_PARSE]
REGEX = \s*(\S+)\s*\x3a\s*((?:[^\x7c\x5d])+?)\s*(?:\x7c|$)
SOURCE_KEY = field:message
FORMAT = $1::$2

One of those key value extractions has another field I want parsed, so I do another one on that field:

[INITIATOR_PARSE]
SOURCE_KEY = field:Initiator
REGEX = ^(.*?)\x2f([^\x40]+)(?:\x40(.+)){0,1}$
FORMAT = SSO_Organization::$1 SSO_User::$2 SSO_Domain::$3

I put them all together with the following in props:

TRANSFORMS-audit = AUDIT_PARSE, AUDIT_MESSAGE_PARSE, INITIATOR_PARSE

Right now AUDIT_PARSE runs and works, but the remainder does not work. If i remove the SOURCE_KEY it 'runs', but it will run in _raw instead of the pre-extracted field. Is this a splunk limitation where I need to do this at Index time, or am I missing something?

Thanks!

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splunkto
Explorer

Looks like I've just answered my own question.

The documentation states to use field (for single) or fields (for multiple), but as soon as I removed field and left "SOURCE_KEY = message", it worked as expected perfectly. Now to go deeper and try a JSON parse on one of the extracted fields...

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splunkto
Explorer

Looks like I've just answered my own question.

The documentation states to use field (for single) or fields (for multiple), but as soon as I removed field and left "SOURCE_KEY = message", it worked as expected perfectly. Now to go deeper and try a JSON parse on one of the extracted fields...

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