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field extraction for error message

Hema_Nithya
Explorer

I want to extract the  following information make it as a field as "error message" .

index=os source="/var/log/syslog" "*authentication failure*" OR "Generic preauthentication failure"

Events example :

Nov 28 01:02:31 server1 sssd[ldap_child[12010]]: Failed to initialize credentials using keytab [MEMORY:/etc/krb5.keytab]: Generic preauthentication failure. Unable to create GSSAPI-encrypted LDAP connection.

Nov 28 01:02:29 server2  proxy_child[1939385]: pam_unix(system-auth-ac:auth): authentication failure; logname= uid=0 euid=0 tty=ssh ruser= rhost=10.177.46.57 user=hippm

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bowesmana
SplunkTrust
SplunkTrust

What defines the start and end of the error text in each of those examples and how much of that do you want to get in error_message

You could very simply do this

| rex "\]:\s(?<error_message>.*)"

which would take everything after the ]: to the end of the event

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