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Parse JSON string with different structures

ashodha
Engager

We have Multiple apps that generate logs and there format is little different . 

Splunk currently just shows that field as just a string ex: 

{

id:1,

log:  " {k1:v1,K2:v2}"

}

The K1 and K2 are not searchable.

log can have different format messages but we want all of them to be searchable. 

Thanks

 

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to4kawa
Ultra Champion
index=_internal | head 1 | fields _raw
| eval _raw="{\"id\":1,\"log\":\"\\\"{k1:v1,K2:v2}\\\"\"}"
| eval data=_raw
| rename COMMENT as "this is sample"
| spath input=data
| rex field=log mode=sed "s/(?<key>\w+):\s*(?<value>\w+)/\"\1\":\"\2\"/g s/\"(.*)\"/\1/"
| spath input=log
| search k1="v1"

It might be a little annoying.

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scelikok
SplunkTrust
SplunkTrust

Hi @ashodha,

I think you see the "log" field, you can use spath like below;

| spath input=log
| search k1="v1" K2="v2"

 

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