Regular Expressions 101

(?ms)applies the following effective flags to the remainder of the pattern: gms

m modifier: multiline. Causes ^ and $ to match the start and end of each line, not only the start and end of the string

s modifier: single line. Allows a dot to match line terminators

^start of line

Group date(?<date>\w+\s\d+)

\w+any word character, repeated at least once

\sany whitespace character

\d+a digit, repeated at least once

\s+any whitespace character, repeated at least once

Group Time(?<Time>\d+:\d+:\d+)

\d+a digit, repeated at least once

:the literal : (58₁₀ / 72₈ / 3A₁₆)

\d+a digit, repeated at least once

:the literal : (58₁₀ / 72₈ / 3A₁₆)

\d+a digit, repeated at least once

.*any character, repeated any number of times

defaultMsgthe literal text defaultMsg (case sensitive)

\"the literal " (34₁₀ / 42₈ / 22₁₆)

:the literal : (58₁₀ / 72₈ / 3A₁₆)

\"the literal " (34₁₀ / 42₈ / 22₁₆)

Group defaultMsg(?<defaultMsg>[^\"]+)

Negated Character Class[^\"]+

+matches at least one character outside the set below:

\"the literal " (34₁₀ / 42₈ / 22₁₆)

.*any character, repeated any number of times

userNamethe literal text userName (case sensitive)

\"the literal " (34₁₀ / 42₈ / 22₁₆)

:the literal : (58₁₀ / 72₈ / 3A₁₆)

\"the literal " (34₁₀ / 42₈ / 22₁₆)

Group userName(?<userName>[^\"]+)

Negated Character Class[^\"]+

+matches at least one character outside the set below:

\"the literal " (34₁₀ / 42₈ / 22₁₆)

Global pattern flags

g modifier: global. Finds all matches instead of stopping after the first

m modifier: multiline. Causes ^ and $ to match the start and end of each line, not only the start and end of the string

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25 tokens

Regular Expression

(?ms)^(?<date>\w+\s\d+)\s+(?<Time>\d+:\d+:\d+).*defaultMsg\":\"(?<defaultMsg>[^\"]+).*userName\":\"(?<userName>[^\"]+)

New

Aug 25 17:41:951 IP_ADDR consolidated_audit: {"affectedEntityList": [{"entityType":"vm","name":"hostname | serverpurpose","uuid":"Ilaef477-6f03-4a22-baa7-23736c8e741c"}],"alertUid":"VmUpdateAudit","classificationList":["UserAction"],"creationTimestampUsecs": "1629874233889978",["defaultMsg":"Updated VM hostname serverpurpose","opEndTimestampUsecs","1629874233884373","opStartTimestampUsecs","1629874233779524","operationType";"Update","originatingClusterUuid":"0005ad50-f430-a46c-001e-e4434bb76b0e","params":{"is_secure_boot":"false","is_uefi_boot":"true","vm_name":"hostname | serverpurpose"}, "recordType": "Audit","severity":"Audit","userName":"abc@abc.com","userUuid":"3f73d040-7516-5caa-a956-91179b2cblf5","uuid":"254f3952-bf9b-4205-8al4-ad2074ed70ab"}

Extraction

Aug 25 17:41:951 IP_ADDR consolidated_audit: {"affectedEntityList": [{"entityType":"vm","name":"hostname | serverpurpose","uuid":"Ilaef477-6f03-4a22-baa7-23736c8e741c"}],"alertUid":"VmUpdateAudit","classificationList":["UserAction"],"creationTimestampUsecs": "1629874233889978",["defaultMsg":"Updated VM hostname serverpurpose","opEndTimestampUsecs","1629874233884373","opStartTimestampUsecs","1629874233779524","operationType";"Update","originatingClusterUuid":"0005ad50-f430-a46c-001e-e4434bb76b0e","params":{"is_secure_boot":"false","is_uefi_boot":"true","vm_name":"hostname | serverpurpose"}, "recordType": "Audit","severity":"Audit","userName":"abc@abc.com","userUuid":"3f73d040-7516-5caa-a956-91179b2cblf5","uuid":"254f3952-bf9b-4205-8al4-ad2074ed70ab"}