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Splunk search query to create a table from JSON search result

Karanreddy
Engager

I am relatively new to Splunk search and I am trying to build a table from my splunk search results.

Can someone please help me to build a table using following JSON

My search results as follows


```
{ [-]
docker: { [+]
}
kubernetes: { [+]
}
log: LOGGER {"name":"some text here","pathname":"/some/path","timestamp":"2023-05-03T20:35:06Z","action":"pageview","payload":{"category":"cloths","country":"US","appEnv":"production"},"uID":"0023493543"}
stream: stdout
}
```


raw text:
```
{
"stream": "stdout",
"log": "LOGGER {\"name\":\"Some text here\",\"pathname\":\"/some/path\",\"timestamp\":\"2023-05-04T10:44:05Z\",\"action\":\"pageview\",\"payload\":{\"category\":\"cloths\",\"country\":\"US\",\"appEnv\":\"production\"},\"uID\":\"0023493543\"}",
"docker": { "container_id": "xxxxxxxxxxxx" },
"kubernetes": {
"container_name": "xxxxxx",
.....
},
"labels": {
.....
},
"namespace_id": "xxxx-xxx-xxx-xxx",
"namespace_labels": {
"application-id": "48928423",
"namespace": "849328932-243232xxxx",
........ }
}
}

```
From this I would like draw the table as

| uID | pathname | category | eventName | country | timestamp |
| 0023493543 | /some/path | cloths | some text here | US |
| ---- | ---- | ---- | ---- | ---- | ---- |

 

I have tried building table using spath, eval, extract commands but none of tries gives me any desired result. If its a plain JSON object in log field, I managed to build a query for few selected fields, but as its a text String and JSON in it, I am not sure, how to extract my fields.

I am expecting a table as shown above, later I can modify query for my complex result.

I have tried the following query,
```
BASE SEARCH | spath path=log | rex field=log max_match=0 "name\W+(?<name>[^\"]+)" | rex field=log max_match=0 "pathname\W+(?<pathname>[^\"]+)" | rex field=log max_match=0 "timestamp\W+(?<timestamp>[^\"]+)" | rex field=log max_match=0 "category\W+(?<category>[^\"]+)" | rex field=log max_match=0 "country\W+(?<country>[^\"]+)" | rex field=log max_match=0 "uID\W+(?<uID>\w+)" | table uID, pathname, category, name, country, timestamp
```

which gives me desired result, except name field. It gives me additional text as

```
some text here
some/path
```

but I need only `some text here`

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