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Can you help me with a regex field extraction?

season88481
Contributor

Hi guys,

I got some the strange events as follows:

timestamp: xxxx
controlType: xxxx
criticality: false
object: xxxx
replace: xxxx

timestamp: xxxx
controlType: xxxx
criticality: false
controlType2: xxxx
criticality: true
object: xxxx
delete: xxxx

timestamp: xxxx
controlType: xxxx
criticality: false
object: xxxx
add: xxxx

They are multi-line events, and have different line number. The first line of each event starts with a timestamp. The last line of the event ends with an HTTP method, e.g. replace, add, delete.

I want to extract the HTTP method. But cannot get it working.

Here is rex I used:

mybaseSearch| rex field=_raw "^(replace|add|delete)(?<method>\:\s)"

Anyone got a better idea. Sorry not sure how to use keywords as the value of the field.

Many thanks.

Cheers,
Vincent

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renjith_nair
Legend

@season88481 ,

Give this a try

|rex field=_raw max_match=0 "(replace|delete|add): (?<METHOD>\S+)"
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