Intro to Regular Expressions, the Cribl Edition
Welcome to our Cribl self-guided demo! This Regex 101 Sandbox course offers an interactive introduction to regular expressions (regex) – the Cribl Edition. Cribl, the Data Engine for IT and Security, empowers organizations to transform their data strategy. We'll show you how to use regex in Cribl to extract information from your data and transfigure it (that means manipulate/transform for you muggles). If you're endowed with magical powers, take out your wands and brooms and come for a ride. For muggles, it may take longer to catch on, but you're invited along for the ride.
This demo should take about 15 minutes to complete. At the end of the course, feel free to move on to any of our other sandboxes.
This sandbox instance stays running for 24 hours, after which you can get a new sandbox, but your progress will be lost. To reconnect to the sandbox, just come back to Cribl Regex 101 and re-enter your email address.
Conventions
In this tutorial, the following formatting indicates (respectively) actions we expect you to take; content you can optionally skip; and commands or content you need to paste into Cribl Stream.
Important text shows actions you need to take. For each of these sections, further sections will depend on your having taken these actions in Stream.
Notes contain optional steps. You can skip these without breaking the infrastructure we're building.
Preformatted text contains commands to be pasted into
Stream. There is an easy Copy option available
at these sections' upper-right corner.
Getting Help
If you get stuck during this tutorial, feel free to reach out to us on the Cribl Community Slack channel.
Login
Stream should automatically log you in, but if you're idle for too long, or get disconnected, it's possible you'll be prompted for a login. The Username is admin and the Password is cribldemo.
You might want to store these to a text file or paper now, just in case.