Splunk Search

Regex tokenizer when the multivalue field has values within an event that are not always connected in a structured way?

boris
Path Finder

I want to make my DATASET field a multivalue field.

The regex extracting the field using Splunkweb's Field Extraction Manager page is:

(umi\.|%3D|,|%3B|\=|/catalog/w+/)(?P{DATASET}[a-z0-9_\-%]+)\.(geometry|\w*geom|\w+\.\w+)

The dataset values in an event are not delimited in an structured way.

An example event with 4 DATASET values:

"select=VALUE1,umi.VALUE2&from=VALUE3%BVALUE4.gemetry"

QUESTIONS:

  • How should define my regex tokenizer for the DATASET field?
  • Should I define tokenizer in fields.conf or in Splunkweb's Transform Manager page?
Tags (2)
0 Karma

yannK
Splunk Employee
Splunk Employee

There is no manager for that.

you can test is with that in a search

<my search> | makemv tokenizer="([^,].*)" DATASET

then deploy a fields.conf to make it automatic
see http://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/6.0.2/Knowledge/ConfigureSplunktoparsemulti-valuefields

0 Karma
Get Updates on the Splunk Community!

.conf25 technical session recap of Observability for Gen AI: Monitoring LLM ...

If you’re unfamiliar, .conf is Splunk’s premier event where the Splunk community, customers, partners, and ...

A Season of Skills: New Splunk Courses to Light Up Your Learning Journey

There’s something special about this time of year—maybe it’s the glow of the holidays, maybe it’s the ...

Announcing the Migration of the Splunk Add-on for Microsoft Azure Inputs to ...

Announcing the Migration of the Splunk Add-on for Microsoft Azure Inputs to Officially Supported Splunk ...