Splunk Search

Regex not working for multiline events

namrithadeepak
Path Finder

Hi,

My logs look like this ...

AS RAW TEXT:

{"timestamp":"2019-08-08 10:23:38.320","level":"INFO","thread":"task-scheduler-8","mdc":{"TraceabilityID":"abcde","file_name":"MySampleFileName.json","Source":"SOURCE"},"logger":"MyApplicationLogConfig","message":" |IN001 |1010908 |Order placed Successfully. |\n |IN002 |1010909 |Order placed Successfully. |\n"}

SYNTAX HIGHLIGHTED:
alt text

WHAT I NEED:
1010908, 1010909 extracted as the OrderNum, Order placed Successfully as OrderStatus.

REGEX:

| rex field=message "(\n\s)*\|IN\d+\s\|(?<orderNum>\d+)\s\|(?<orderStatus>[\w\s]+)\.\s\|(\n)?"

ERROR IS:
The regex extracts only '1010908' as the OrderNum. I want both 1010908, 1010909 to be extracted.

Thanks in advance.

0 Karma

woodcock
Esteemed Legend

You need max_match=0, like this:

| makeresults
| eval _raw = "{\"timestamp\":\"2019-08-08 10:23:38.320\",\"level\":\"INFO\",\"thread\":\"task-scheduler-8\",\"mdc\":{\"TraceabilityID\":\"abcde\",\"file_name\":\"MySampleFileName.json\",\"Source\":\"SOURCE\"},\"logger\":\"MyApplicationLogConfig\",\"message\":\" |IN001 |1010908 |Order placed Successfully. |\n |IN002 |1010909 |Order placed Successfully. |\n\"}"
| spath
| rex field=message max_match=0 "(\n\s)*\|IN\d+\s\|(?<orderNum>\d+)\s\|(?<orderStatus>[\w\s]+)\.\s\|(\n)?"

Sukisen1981
Champion

can you paste the event as text , without a screen shot? that way we can work with the extraction

0 Karma

Sukisen1981
Champion

if you just append a max_match=0 , liker this to your regex, is it what you expect?

| rex field=message "(\n\s)*\|IN\d+\s\|(?<orderNum>\d+)\s\|(?<orderStatus>[\w\s]+)\.\s\|(\n)?" max_match=0
0 Karma
Get Updates on the Splunk Community!

Accelerating Observability as Code with the Splunk AI Assistant

We’ve seen in previous posts what Observability as Code (OaC) is and how it’s now essential for managing ...

Integrating Splunk Search API and Quarto to Create Reproducible Investigation ...

 Splunk is More Than Just the Web Console For Digital Forensics and Incident Response (DFIR) practitioners, ...

Congratulations to the 2025-2026 SplunkTrust!

Hello, Splunk Community! We are beyond thrilled to announce our newest group of SplunkTrust members!  The ...