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bbhandari012
Explorer

How do i use the regex pattern to get only 13348864 for memory-free ?

forwarder.memory.memory-cached 367001600 1458101573
forwarder.memory.memory-free 13348864 1458101573
forwarder.memory.memory-slab_recl 29585408 1458101573
forwarder.memory.memory-used 66830336 1458101573

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chimell
Motivator

Hi
Try this search code

    ..............| rex  field=_raw "forwarder\.memory\.memory-free\s+(?<memory_free>[\d+]+)\s+"
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dwaddle
SplunkTrust
SplunkTrust

A simple approach might be something like:

| rex "forwarder\.memory\.memory-free\s+(?<memory-free>\d+)\s+"

But surely you tried this or something very close to it?

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