Solved: Re: Splunk querying nested log - Page 2

shwetamis · ‎11-21-2019

I have a log below and I want to get the value of Description under :- Calling Checklist1003
How do I do that ??

Message type: SBAWF13Info Code: 1001 dec, 3e9 hex
11/21/2019 09:21:53.297 Fault type: Application Severity: Info
11/21/2019 09:21:53.297 Description: This is a resubmission of a case that was underwritten using the
11/21/2019 09:21:53.297 UW_10.30 KB engine

11/21/2019 09:21:53.297

11/21/2019 09:21:53.297 UWROUTER service will be used for underwriting
11/21/2019 09:21:53.297 ----------------------------------------------------------------
11/21/2019 09:21:53.297 Message type: SBAWF13Info Code: 1001 dec, 3e9 hex
11/21/2019 09:21:53.297 Fault type: Application Severity: Info
11/21/2019 09:21:53.297 Description: This case will be underwritten using UWROUTER 1.0

11/21/2019 09:21:53.297

11/21/2019 09:21:53.297 Calling Checklist1003
11/21/2019 09:21:53.345 ----------------------------------------------------------------
11/21/2019 09:21:53.345 Message type: Code: 118310 dec, 1ce26 hex
11/21/2019 09:21:53.345 Fault type: Undefined Severity: Undefined
11/21/2019 09:21:53.345 Description: Hired From Date is missing for secondary employment for

11/21/2019 09:21:53.345 applicant .

11/21/2019 09:21:53.345

11/21/2019 09:21:53.358 -----------------------------------------

dmarling · ‎11-21-2019

Here's how I would do it. This assumes that the description will never be more than two lines long. Here's a run anywhere example using the data you provided in the initial post:

| makeresults count=1
| eval data="Message type: SBAWF13Info Code: 1001 dec, 3e9 hex
11/21/2019 09:21:53.297 Fault type: Application Severity: Info
11/21/2019 09:21:53.297 Description: This is a resubmission of a case that was underwritten using the
11/21/2019 09:21:53.297 UW_10.30 KB engine
11/21/2019 09:21:53.297
11/21/2019 09:21:53.297 UWROUTER service will be used for underwriting
11/21/2019 09:21:53.297 ----------------------------------------------------------------
11/21/2019 09:21:53.297 Message type: SBAWF13Info Code: 1001 dec, 3e9 hex
11/21/2019 09:21:53.297 Fault type: Application Severity: Info
11/21/2019 09:21:53.297 Description: This case will be underwritten using UWROUTER 1.0
11/21/2019 09:21:53.297
11/21/2019 09:21:53.297 Calling Checklist1003
11/21/2019 09:21:53.345 ----------------------------------------------------------------
11/21/2019 09:21:53.345 Message type: Code: 118310 dec, 1ce26 hex
11/21/2019 09:21:53.345 Fault type: Undefined Severity: Undefined
11/21/2019 09:21:53.345 Description: Hired From Date is missing for secondary employment for
11/21/2019 09:21:53.345 applicant .
11/21/2019 09:21:53.345
11/21/2019 09:21:53.358 -----------------------------------------"
| rex field=data mode=sed "s/([\n\r])\d{2}\/\d{2}\/\d{4} \d{2}:\d{2}:\d{2}.\d{3}/\1/g"
| rex field=data max_match=2 "Description: (?<Description>[^\n]+\n[^\n]+)"
| eval Description=mvindex(Description, -1)

The last three lines of that are applicable to you except you would remove the field=data and replace it with field=_raw. This removes the date/time stamps from the message and grab everything after each Description plus 1 line with the rex and then only returns the last Description in the event with the eval.

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shwetamis · ‎11-21-2019

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Splunk querying nested log

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