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fromjson

Description

Converts JSON-formatted objects into multivalue fields. If you give the fromjson command a single field name that points to proper JSON objects, fromjson returns keys as fields and key values as field values.

Syntax

Required syntax is in bold.

| fromjson<string>
[ prefix=<string>]

Optional arguments

prefix
Syntax: prefix=<string>
Description: Prepends a string to the fields that fromjson extracts from a JSON-formatted object. For example, including prefix=my_ in the search adds my_ to the beginning of field names in the results.
Default: none

Usage

The fromjson command is a streaming command, which means that it turns JSON-formatted objects into fields as each JSON object is received. See Types of commands.

Examples

1. Expand a JSON object to create new fields

Use the fromjson command to expand a JSON-formatted object and return the values in the search result. This example creates two new fields called name and age, and outputs the corresponding values in the search results.

| makeresults | eval object=json_object("name", "Albert", "age", 63) | fromjson object

The results look something like this.
_time age name object
2020-11-09 17:01:22 63 Albert {"name":"Albert", "age":63}

2. Prepend the name of extracted fields

You can use the optional argument prefix to prepend a string to fields extracted from a JSON-formatted object. This example creates two new fields called json_name and json_age.

| makeresults | eval object=json_object("name", "Albert", "age", 63) | fromjson object prefix=my_

The results look something like this.
_time my_age my_name object
2020-11-09 17:01:22 63 Albert {"name":"Albert", "age":63}

3. Expand nested JSON objects

When you use fromjson to expand JSON-formatted objects into multivalue fields, you can retain the formatting of JSON objects by nesting them within the main object. In the following example, the object called json_obj with the key-value pair "school" and "city", is nested within another JSON object called object.

| makeresults | eval object=json_object("age", 19, "name", "Sally", "new", false(), "classes", json_array("math", "history", "science"), "another_json_object", json_object("school", "city"), "null", null)| fromjson object

The results look something like this.
_time age another_json_obj classes name new object
2020-11-09 17:01:22 19 {"school":"city"} math

history
science

Sally false {"age":19,"name":"Sally","new":false,"classes":

["math","history","science"],"another_json_object":{"school":"city"},"null":null}

See also

Commands
tojson
Evaluation functions
JSON functions
Last modified on 13 February, 2023
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This documentation applies to the following versions of Splunk® Enterprise: 9.0.0, 9.0.1, 9.0.2, 9.0.3, 9.0.4, 9.0.5, 9.0.6, 9.0.7, 9.0.8, 9.0.9, 9.1.0, 9.1.1, 9.1.2, 9.1.3, 9.1.4, 9.2.0, 9.2.1


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