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Rex to filter To remove multiline log entry

Tijil480
Observer

Please find the below single Log entry with multiple lines:

>Validation results 

   Message 1) sucess: true 

   Message 2) sucess: false 

   Reason : All is an invalid log event type 

   Message 3) sucess: true 

......

Need rex to fetch only false with reason lines.

Remaining needs to be ignored.

Tried below rex not getting proper results.

|Rex field=_raw "(?ms)(?<result>(.*)(?:true)"|table result

 

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richgalloway
SplunkTrust
SplunkTrust

Try this

| rex "(?<result>false[\s\S]*)Message"
| table result
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Tijil480
Observer

Still it fetches sucess: true 

 

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richgalloway
SplunkTrust
SplunkTrust

regex101.com disagrees. https://regex101.com/r/deZogv/1

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ITWhisperer
SplunkTrust
SplunkTrust

To just get the reason:

| rex "(?ms)sucess: false[^\n]\n(?<field>[^\n]+)"

To get both lines:

| rex "(?ms)(?<field>[^\n]+sucess: false[^\n]+\n[^\n]+)"

 

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Tijil480
Observer

Both queries are not returning any reaults

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ITWhisperer
SplunkTrust
SplunkTrust

Perhaps if you could share some more realistic log data (anonymised of course) it might help us work out what may be going wrong

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ITWhisperer
SplunkTrust
SplunkTrust

Did you try this?

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