How to generate a regular expression on a URL to capture a resource path and end on a optional parameter?

[bcatwork]

Hi all, I am looking for some help for the following use case.

I have a series of endpoints represented by full URLs logged across a few sources, of which i am trying to normalize to then aggregate on.

I am looking for the resource path, less any optional params. To say, I want to capture everything after the [//] double slash, domain name, first [/] singular slash and end that capture on an optional param [?]

https://answers.splunk.com/answers/ask.html?foo=bar --> Becomes --> answers/ask.html
https://answers.splunk.com/answers/ask.html --> Becomes --> answers/ask.html
http://docs.splunk.com/Documentation --> Becomes --> Documentation

[gokadroid]

If say your url is already in the field myUrl, then try this:

yourBasequery to get myUrl field
|rex field=myUrl "http(s)*\:\/\/([^\/]+)\/(?<uri>[^\?\s]+)"

OR, try on _raw

yourBasequery to get url field
|rex field=_raw "http(s)*\:\/\/([^\/]+)\/(?<uri>[^\?\s]+)"

[pgreer_splunk]

rex field=urlField "^[^\/]+\/\/[^\/]+\/(?P<wantedField>[^\s;]+).*"

should pick up all three of your example use cases into the new extracted field named 'wantedField'

[somesoni2]

You can try the replace OR rex-sed method to update the url field per your guideline. (sample run anywhere sample)

| gentimes start=-1 | eval url="https://answers.splunk.com/answers/ask.html?foo=bar https://answers.splunk.com/answers/ask.html http://docs.splunk.com/Documentation"; | makemv url | table url | mvexpand url 
| eval url=replace(url,"^[^\/]+\/\/[^\/]+\/([^\s\?;=]+).*","\1") | ...rest of the query

OR

| gentimes start=-1 | eval url="https://answers.splunk.com/answers/ask.html?foo=bar https://answers.splunk.com/answers/ask.html http://docs.splunk.com/Documentation"; | makemv url | table url | mvexpand url 
| rex mode=sed field=url "s/^[^\/]+\/\/[^\/]+\/([^\s\?;=]+).*/\1/" | ...rest of the query

[aaraneta_splunk]

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