Replaces each substring of the specified fields value that matches the given regular expression with the given replacement. Humio uses JitRex which closely follows the syntax of re2j regular expressions, which has a syntax very close to Java's regular expressions. Check out the syntax.

ParameterTypeRequiredDefaultDescription
asstringfalse Specifies the field to store the replaced string as. Default is replacing the contents of the input field .
fieldstringfalse@rawstringSpecifies the field to run the replacement on. Default is running against @rawstring.
flagsstringfalsemSpecifies other regex flags m is multi line, i is ignore case, and d means dot (.) includes newline.
regexstringtrue The regular expression to match.
replacementstringfalse The string to substitute for each match (same as with).
withstringfalse The string to substitute for each match (defaults to a pair of double-quotes).

Examples

  • Correct a spelling mistake

    humio
    replace(regex=properties, with=properties)

  • Get the integer part of a number. This example uses regex capturing groups, and stores the replacement in the field b, leaving field a untouched. This is the same as regex("(?<b>\d+)\..*", field=a) using a named capture group.

    humio
    replace("(\d+)\..*", with="$1", field=a, as=b)

  • Truncate a message to 100 characters:

    humio
    replace("^(.{100}).*", with="$1", field=message, as="truncated_message")