Regular Expression Examples for Monitors and Autowatchers

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Regular Expression Examples for Monitors and Autowatchers

This section provides regular expression examples in context to each monitor type.

Process Monitors

Matches processes that start with ‘svchost’:
```
^svchost
```
Matches processes that contain ‘sql’:
```
sql
```
Matches processes that end in ‘svc’:
```
svc$
```
Matches both ‘cmd’ and ‘CMD’ processes (requires PCRE):
```
/cmd/i
```

Note: Unless you are monitoring for the existence of multiple instances of a process (with the 0x4000 flag), use a regular expression that matches only one process.

Windows Service Monitors

Matches the service with the exact display name ‘Print Spooler’:
```
^Print Spooler$
```

Note: For Windows services, use a regular expression that matches only one service.

Process Group Monitors

Matches all processes that start with ‘sql’ or ‘svchost’:
```
^sql|^svchost
```

Windows Event Monitors (Source Filter)

Matches events from any source:
```
.*
```
Matches events from the http server:
```
http
```

Windows Event Monitors (Description Filter)

Matches events with Event ID of 277 (requires the ‘Prepend Event ID’ flag – 0x0100):
```
\[277\]
```
Matches events containing the text ‘FATAL’ anywhere in the line:
```
FATAL
```

Log File Monitors (Search Filter)

Matches on text indicating a failed su attempt:
```
su.*fail
```
Matches on the text strings “WARNING:” and “Invalid login attempt” which is separated by an unknown number of lines in the log file (requires PCRE):
```
/^WARNING:(.*\n)*Invalid login attempt/m
```
Matches on the text ‘error’ regardless of case (requires PCRE):
```
/error/i
```

Generic Autowatchers

Instance Criteria RegEx, RegEx 2, RegEx 3:

Matches on text containing ‘WiFi’:
```
WiFi
```
Matches on text containing ‘C:’, ‘D:’, or ‘E:’:
```
C:|D:|E:
```

Process Autowatchers

Instance Criteria RegEx, RegEx 2, RegEx 3:

Matches processes that start with ‘svchost’:
```
^svchost
```
Matches processes that contain ‘sql’:
```
sql
```
Matches processes that end in ‘svc':
```
svc$
```
Matches both ‘cmd’ and ‘CMD’ processes (requires PCRE):
```
/cmd/i
```
Matches all processes that start with ‘sql’ or ‘svchost’:
```
^sql|^svchost
```

Service Autowatchers

Instance Criteria RegEx, RegEx 2, RegEx 3:

Match on all services with ‘SQL’ in the display name:
```
.*SQL.*
```
Match on all services starting with ‘SQL’ in the display name:
```
^SQL
```
Match on all services starting with ‘SQL’ regardless of case:
```
/^SQL/i
```

More information:

Perl Compatible Regular Expression (PCRE) Support

Multiline Regular Expressions

Configure Text Pattern Exclusion

Regular Expression Examples