pattern
What is a pattern?
- Description
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Patterns can extract meaningful information from free-form log messages, such as usernames, IP addresses, and URLs. A pattern can be a simple string or a more complex regular expression. Using patterns is one of the quickest ways to extract values from log records automatically.
Log data is high-volume telemetry with a low weight per individual record. Searching can quickly lead to logs that provide a root cause explanation, but most data is repetitive and challenging to contextualize when browsing. Patterns can make important log data easily discoverable by eliminating low-value data.
- In the world of NXLog
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NXLog provides several pattern-matching options. The most efficient is through the dedicated xm_pattern extension module, which supports on-the-fly pattern reordering to optimize pattern matching based on the data. NXLog also supports pattern matching with regular expressions and Grok patterns with the xm_grok module.
- Known as
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pattern, log pattern, logging pattern, log filter pattern, grok patterns
- Related
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Extracting data
Pattern Matcher (xm_pattern)
Pattern matching with Grok
