XML timestamp extraction?

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I have the following in an XML event, and want to put it into it's own field, but none of the XMLPATH I've tried have worked. Help??

   <Event>
      <System>
            ...
            <TimeCreated SystemTime="2019-07-30T13:05:26.543836000Z" />
            ...
      </System>
            <EventData>
            ...
            </EventData>
   </Event>
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@Badger since you're so helpful :slight_smile:

3

Try

xpath => { "/Event/System/TimeCreated/@SystemTime" => "foo" }
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Looks like that didn't work :frowning:

[ERROR] 2019-08-01 07:45:30.487 [Converge PipelineAction::Create<main>] xml - Invalid setting for xml filter plugin:

  filter {
    xml {
      # This setting must be a hash
      # This field must contain an even number of items, got 11
      xpath => ["/Event/System/EventID/text()", "System.EventID", "/Event/System/EventName/text()", "System.EventName", "/Event/System/Result/text()", "System.Result", "/Event/System/Channel/text()", "System.Channel", "/Event/System/Computer/text()", "System.Computer", ["/Event/System/TimeCreated/@SystemTime", "System.EventTime"]]
      ...
    }
  }
[ERROR] 2019-08-01 07:45:30.495 [Converge PipelineAction::Create<main>] agent - Failed to execute action {:action=>LogStash::PipelineAction::Create/pipeline_id:main, :exception=>"LogStash::ConfigurationError", :message=>"Something is wrong with your configuration.", :backtrace=>["/usr/share/logstash/logstash-core/lib/logstash/config/mixin.rb:87:in `config_init'", "/usr/share/logstash/logstash-core/lib/logstash/filters/base.rb:126:in `initialize'", "org/logstash/plugins/PluginFactoryExt.java:81:in `filter_delegator'", "org/logstash/plugins/PluginFactoryExt.java:251:in `plugin'", "org/logstash/execution/JavaBasePipelineExt.java:50:in `initialize'", "/usr/share/logstash/logstash-core/lib/logstash/java_pipeline.rb:24:in `initialize'", "/usr/share/logstash/logstash-core/lib/logstash/pipeline_action/create.rb:36:in `execute'", "/usr/share/logstash/logstash-core/lib/logstash/agent.rb:325:in `block in converge_state'"]}
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I used xpath => [ "/Event/System/TimeCreated/@SystemTime", "System.EventTime" ] and it worked, thanks for pointing me in the right direction, again :slight_smile:

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If you use an array logstash will convert it to a hash using pairs of array entries. That is why it says it has to have an even number of entries.

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