Issue with regex pattern for prune filter plugin blacklist_names

[sai_kiran1 (Sai Kiran)]

Hi There!

I am trying to ignore the fields a4, a5, a6....., a1100 from my audit logs and tried applying prune filter plugin with setting blacklist_names, but I see the fields a4, a5, a6..... are still incoming.

Can someone let me know if this is the correct way we use regex for prune Or suggest any way to achieve this particular scenario where I can ignore a specific set of fields?

Below is the setting that was implemented:

prune {
blacklist_names => ["^a[4-9][0-9][0-9][0-9]"]
add_tag => [ "pruned" ]
}

Thanks,
Sai

[Badger]

No, it does not work that way. See this post.

[sai_kiran1 (Sai Kiran)]

@Badger Thanks for the reference , Does this work with field names as well ?
I need to check on field names and ignore if it falls in the list of field names

In my case field names are a4, a5, a6, a7.......a2000.

[Badger]

Yes, in that example I am testing the value

                if v == ""
                    event.remove(k)
                end

But you could equally well test the key against whatever regexp you want

  if k =~ /^a[0-9]+/ ...

[sai_kiran1 (Sai Kiran)]

@Badger that helped me to achieve my requirement, Thank you.

Below is the code I used to ignore fields a4, a5, a6, a7.......a2000 keeping a0, a1, a2, a3

ruby {
                        code => "event.to_hash.each { |k, v|
                                        if k =~ /^a[4-9]/ || k=~ /^a[0-9]{2,}/
                                                event.remove(k)
                                                event.tag('ruby')
                                        end
                                        }
                                "
                }