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How to Split the below json file into multi events

Inayath_khan
Path Finder

Hi Folks,

Kindly help me to figure out dividing the below logs into each events.

     {
        "SecurityGroups": [
            {
                "Description": "default VPC security group",
                "GroupId": "abcd",
                "GroupName": "default",
                "IpPermissions": [
                    {
                        "FromPort": 23,
                        "IpProtocol": "tcp",
                        "IpRanges": [
                            {
                                "CidrIp": "0.0.0.0/0"
                            }
                        ],
                        "Ipv6Ranges": [
                            {
                                "CidrIpv6": "::/0"
                            }
                        ],
                        "PrefixListIds": [],
                        "ToPort": 22,
                        "UserIdGroupPairs": []
                    },
                    {
                        "FromPort": 443,
                        "IpProtocol": "tcp",
                        "IpRanges": [
                            {
                                "CidrIp": "0.0.0.0/0",
                                "Description": "For logs"
                            }
                        ],
                        "Ipv6Ranges": [
                            {
                                "CidrIpv6": "::/0",
                                "Description": "For logs"
                            }
                        ],
                        "PrefixListIds": [],
                        "ToPort": 443,
                        "UserIdGroupPairs": []
                    }
                ],
                "IpPermissionsEgress": [],
                "OwnerId": "##########",
                "VpcId": "vpc-#############"
            },
            {
                "Description": "launch-wizard-10 created 2019-03-27T18:10:47.749-07:00",
                "GroupId": "sg-#############",
                "GroupName": "launch-wizard-10",
                "IpPermissions": [
                    {
                        "FromPort": 22,
                        "IpProtocol": "tcp",
                        "IpRanges": [
                            {
                                "CidrIp": "0.0.0.0/0"
                            }
                        ],
                        "Ipv6Ranges": [],
                        "PrefixListIds": [],
                        "ToPort": 22,
                        "UserIdGroupPairs": []
                    }
                ],
                "IpPermissionsEgress": [
                    {
                        "IpProtocol": "-1",
                        "IpRanges": [
                            {
                                "CidrIp": "0.0.0.0/0"
                            }
                        ],
                        "Ipv6Ranges": [],
                        "PrefixListIds": [],
                        "UserIdGroupPairs": []
                    }
                ],
                "OwnerId": "439086027177",
                "VpcId": "vpc-01d67bc62cd3d2d62"
            },
            {
                "Description": "Security Group",
                "GroupId": "##############",
                "GroupName": "prd-#################",
                "IpPermissions": [
                    {
                        "FromPort": 8093,
                        "IpProtocol": "tcp",
                        "IpRanges": [
                            {
                                "CidrIp": "10.0.0.1/25",
                                "Description": "############"
                            }
                        ],
                        "Ipv6Ranges": [],
                        "PrefixListIds": [],
                        "ToPort": 9093,
                        "UserIdGroupPairs": [
                            {
                                "Description": "########## ",
                                "GroupId": "##########",
                                "UserId": "#############"
                            }
                        ]
                    },
                    {
                        "FromPort": 9090,
                        "IpProtocol": "tcp",
                        "IpRanges": [
                            {
                                "CidrIp": "10.0.0.1/19",
                                "Description": "############"
                            }
                        ],
                        "Ipv6Ranges": [],
                        "PrefixListIds": [],
                        "ToPort": 3899,
                        "UserIdGroupPairs": [
                            {
                                "Description": "######### ",
                                "GroupId": "############",
                                "UserId": "##############"
                            }
                        ]
                    },
                    {
                        "FromPort": 8080,
                        "IpProtocol": "tcp",
                        "IpRanges": [
                            {
                                "CidrIp": "10.0.0.1/23",
                                "Description": "#########"
                            }
                        ],
                        "Ipv6Ranges": [],
                        "PrefixListIds": [],
                        "ToPort": 443,
                        "UserIdGroupPairs": [
                            {
                                "Description": "HTTPS port",
                                "GroupId": "#############",
                                "UserId": "##############"
                            }
                        ]
                    }
                ],
                "IpPermissionsEgress": [
                    {
                        "IpProtocol": "-1",
                        "IpRanges": [
                            {
                                "CidrIp": "0.0.0.0/0"
                            }
                        ],
                        "Ipv6Ranges": [],
                        "PrefixListIds": [],
                        "UserIdGroupPairs": []
                    }
                ],
                "OwnerId": "439086027177",
                "Tags": [
                    {
                        "Key": "####",
                        "Value": "#######"
                    },
                    {
                        "Key": "#########",
                        "Value": "################"
                    },
                    {
                        "Key": "####",
                        "Value": "#####"
                    },
                    {
                        "Key": "Name",
                        "Value": "############"
                    }
                ],
                "VpcId": "vpc-#################"    
                }
           ]
   }

Awaiting for a quick response . Kindly reply on the post.

I tried the below method but failed at writing the REGEX.

https://answers.splunk.com/answers/642050/how-to-split-the-following-json-into-different-eve.html

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martynoconnor
Communicator

The lack of a timestamp is an issue - cause if you're reading all of these from a single JSON, you'll have Splunk thinking everything happened at once, at the point of ingest.

Anyway, you can break the JSON into events using BREAK_ONLY_BEFORE = \"Description\":\s+\"[\w\s]+\" in your sourcetype definition and by disabling INDEXED_EXTRACTIONS = json, but then by telling Splunk to ignore its normal parsing of JSON, you lose all of the extracted fields, and you'll need to use EXTRACT-blah in props to pull things out.

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martynoconnor
Communicator

The lack of a timestamp is an issue - cause if you're reading all of these from a single JSON, you'll have Splunk thinking everything happened at once, at the point of ingest.

Anyway, you can break the JSON into events using BREAK_ONLY_BEFORE = \"Description\":\s+\"[\w\s]+\" in your sourcetype definition and by disabling INDEXED_EXTRACTIONS = json, but then by telling Splunk to ignore its normal parsing of JSON, you lose all of the extracted fields, and you'll need to use EXTRACT-blah in props to pull things out.

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martynoconnor
Communicator

How exactly do you want it split? What within the JSON posted do you consider an event breaker?

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