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Is there anyway to modify a field name automatically at search time configuring props.conf and transforms.conf?

ryoji_solsys
Explorer

Is there anyway I can modify a field name at search time ?

I have a field "client__phone" (with double underscores) which is dynamically generated based on my regex in transforms.conf as shown below at search time.

[req_transform]
CLEAN_KEYS = 1
REGEX = request\=\"(?<_KEY_1>\w+.+\w+)\:(?<_VAL_1>\w+|\d+)\}\s
MV_ADD = 1

And a sample data is

...request="client:{phone:1234456} receiver:{23404} accesspoint:{Notifier} endpoint:{343} " opn=".....

I would like to append "req" in front of the field and remove an underscore so that it becomes something like "req_client_phone".

I would like to modify the field automatically by editing transforms.conf and props.conf. I know that I can modify the field with "rename"
command but I want to do this "automatically".

Thanks.

1 Solution

richgalloway
SplunkTrust
SplunkTrust

Have you considered creating an alias? Put this in your props.conf file:

FIELDALIAS-clientPhone = phone AS req_client_phone
---
If this reply helps you, Karma would be appreciated.

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richgalloway
SplunkTrust
SplunkTrust

Have you considered creating an alias? Put this in your props.conf file:

FIELDALIAS-clientPhone = phone AS req_client_phone
---
If this reply helps you, Karma would be appreciated.

somesoni2
Revered Legend

Generic field alias would be like this

FIELDALIAS-clientfields = client__* as req_client_*
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ryoji_solsys
Explorer

Hi richgalloway and somesoni2,

Thanks for the quick reply.
"FIELDALIAS" works for me.
I tried using wildcard as somesoni2 suggested but it's not working for me.
I wonder if "FIELDALIAS" doesn't support wildcard.

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