I am doing field extraction for a log file format as below:
line 1: field1, field2, field3, field4
line 2: field1, field2, field3, field5, field4
line 3: field1, field2, field3, field4
I can write separate regex1 for line 1 and regex 2 for line 2 format, but when I do field extraction, I can only use one regex, how can I put both regex in to cover all log format? Any suggestions?
Cheers
Sam
Thank you for all the answers, what I am looking for is more on index / normalize the log when it injected rather than doing field extraction in the search query.
To achieve my goal, I end up have two field extraction Rex for this sourcetype, it seems give what I want. But I am wondering would that consume too much resource when I inject large mount of logs?
You can use something like the following (the rex
command is the part you are interested in, and the rest is the setup for showing that it works) :
| makeresults
| eval raw="line 1: field1, field2, field3, field4
line 2: field1, field2, field3, field5, field4
line 3: field1, field2, field3, field4"
| makemv raw delim="
"
| mvexpand raw
| rex field=raw "[^:]+:\s*(?P<field1>[^,]+),\s*(?P<field2>[^,]+),\s*(?P<field3>[^,]+),\s*((?P<field5>[^,]+?),\s*?)?+\s*(?P<field4>[^,]+$)"
You will probably have to make adjustments for your actual data, but this should get you started on a complete solution.
Please check -
sourcetype="multiplefields" | rex max_match=0 "(?<FIELDS>\S+)[\,|\n]" | table _raw FIELDS
you just want to pull all fields and make a table like this photo or some other operations you want to do, please clarify -
(PS- on the photo, one or two fields are not picked up, that is due to my sample file.)