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Regex: Help extracting user ID, session ID, and browser

reverse
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2019.06.26 13.18.18.186 ERROR presentation [WebContainer : 5]: **********Browser information - ***********Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64; Trident/7.0; rv:11.0) like Gecko ** Session ID is ** - xZB1wEDYSWWEOxE3Hh9ke1GWnsRuEyZRY_PtogsnSU28-17Wx ****** User ID ******uhyh\abcdefg** Is User using privacy/inCognito mode : **false** User using tab with ID : **2ee981ea-3eb4-4982-bdbb-6ff0d4a4c242

Please help me with extracting:

  • user id =uhyh\abcdefg
  • session id = xZB1wEDYSWWEOxE3Hh9ke1GWnsRuEyZRY_PtogsnSU28-17Wx
  • browser = Mozilla/5.0

Please guide.

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Vijeta
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@reverse - Use these for each field

| rex field=_raw "\*{0,10}Browser\s+information{0,20} - \*{0,20}(?<browser>.*) \(" | rex field=_raw "Session ID is \*{2} - (?<session>\S+)" | rex field=_raw "User ID \*{1,10}(?<user>\S+)\*{2}"

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niketn
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@reverse try the rex from the following run anywhere example | rex "Browser\sinformation\s\-\s\*+(?<BrowserInfo>[^\s]+).*Session ID is \*+\s\-\s(?<SessionID>[^\*]+)\*+\sUser\sID\s\*+(?<UserID>[^\*]+)\*+"

| makeresults
| eval _raw=" 2019.06.26 13.18.18.186 ERROR presentation [WebContainer : 5]: **********Browser information - ***********Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64; Trident/7.0; rv:11.0) like Gecko ** Session ID is ** - xZB1wEDYSWWEOxE3Hh9ke1GWnsRuEyZRY_PtogsnSU28-17Wx ****** User ID ******uhyh\abcdefg** Is User using privacy/inCognito mode : **false** User using tab with ID : **2ee981ea-3eb4-4982-bdbb-6ff0d4a4c242"
| table _time _raw
| rex "Browser\sinformation\s\-\s\*+(?<BrowserInfo>[^\s]+).*Session ID is \*+\s\-\s(?<SessionID>[^\*]+)\*+\sUser\sID\s\*+(?<UserID>[^\*]+)\*+"
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| makeresults | eval message= "Happy Splunking!!!"
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Vijeta
Influencer

@reverse - Use these for each field

| rex field=_raw "\*{0,10}Browser\s+information{0,20} - \*{0,20}(?<browser>.*) \(" | rex field=_raw "Session ID is \*{2} - (?<session>\S+)" | rex field=_raw "User ID \*{1,10}(?<user>\S+)\*{2}"
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reverse
Contributor

one minor update @Vijeta .. i added ? after * to make it not greedy to match (.. there were many ( in my logs ..
by putting ? it worked perfectly ..

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reverse
Contributor

Amazing ..Thanks a ton!

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reverse
Contributor

Please guide. @jnudell_2 @Vijeta

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