Transforming results from json api to a table

[willryals]

Hi there!

I am kinda new to Splunk so I apologize if my wording is off, but I am trying to collect metrics from a weirder phone system, and the way it presents data is like this:

{
"response": {
"method": "switchvox.callQueues.getCurrentStatus",
"result": {
"call_queue": {
"extension": "***",
"strategy": "ring_all",
"queue_members": {
"queue_member": [
{
"paused_time": "15911",
"completed_calls": "8",
"paused_since": "",
"talking_to_name": "",
"login_type": "login",
"order": "1",
"login_time": "32963",
"extension": "***",
"max_talk_time": "661",
"time_of_last_call": "2021-01-06 13:52:31",
"paused": "0",
"account_id": "***",
"missed_calls": "14",
"logged_in_status": "logged_off",
"fullname": "***",
"talking_to_number": "",
"avg_talk_time": "443"
},

Where it restates the variable name with each record. So far I have the rest api module pulling the data, and doing some light translation on it (it still looks like an array but it is at least identifying each extension). Is there a way to get Splunk to use the first portion of each response as a field name while tying it to the same record?

EX:

{
"paused_time": "15911",
"completed_calls": "8",
"paused_since": "",
"talking_to_name": "",
"login_type": "login",
"order": "1",
"login_time": "32963",
"extension": "***",
"max_talk_time": "661",
"time_of_last_call": "2021-01-06 13:52:31",
"paused": "0",
"account_id": "**1",
"missed_calls": "14",
"logged_in_status": "logged_off",
"fullname": "***",
"talking_to_number": "",
"avg_talk_time": "443"
}, 

getting converted to 

Account_ID

login_time

missed_calls

paused_since

avg_talk_time

max_talk_time

**1

32963

14

443

661

**2

32945

0

250

450

[scelikok]

Hi @willryals ,

Yes, on some json events especially arrays cannot be parsed default successfully. That is why you should use this kind of search commands. 

[willryals]

So I went ahead and created new sources and have them writing to a new index, but it still appears to be disregarding the SPL. 

So far the only thing I have is the response type set to JSON on the source... 

Are there any other ideas you can think of?

[scelikok]

Hi @willryals,

You can try below;

| eval _raw=replace(replace(_raw,"\[",""),"\]","") 
| spath path=response.result.call_queue.queue_members output=queue_members
| spath input=queue_members
| rename queue_member.* AS *
| table account_id login_time	missed_calls	paused_since	avg_talk_time	max_talk_time

If this reply helps you an upvote is appreciated.

[willryals]

@scelikok Thank you for the fast reply! While Splunk takes those arguments, it doesn't appear to actually be parsing the data. I would add these arguments to the search right?