Hello, thanks everyone for the prompt response. With some aid I was able to figure it out Mostly my problem was to understand the difference between the Grouping Regular Expression and extracting the date parameter which in my case are pretty much the same expression. Also I have to admit that the RouteText.Group attribute was not something easy to find even in the documentation. I feel that reading a TCP connection with logs and store it partitioned directly to a Hive table should be a fairly common use case, so I'm attaching the template as a grain of sand contribution. recordtexttopartition.xml Thanks again ... View more