topic Re: How to pass multiple values for a field through token in a dashboard? in Dashboards & Visualizations

How to pass multiple values for a field through token in a dashboard?

nasamajh09 — Fri, 28 Apr 2017 15:59:42 GMT

Ex -

Suppose i want to check results for 10 servers. So in dashboard I should be able to enter 10 values in token

like server1,server2,server3,server4...

Re: How to pass multiple values for a field through token in a dashboard?

somesoni2 — Tue, 29 Sep 2020 13:52:47 GMT

You can (for 6.3 or higher version of splunk) use <eval> in your form input to update the token value to be format which can be used in the search directly.

E.g. Say you want to token value $hosts$ to be used against field host in your search, try like this

<input type="dropdown" token="hosts">
      <label>Enter hosts</label>
      <default>*</default>
  <change>
      <eval token="host_tok">"host=".replace("$hosts$",","," OR host=")</eval>
     </change>
    </input>

You'll be using $host_tok$ in your search e.g. index=foo sourcetype=bar $host_tok$

Other option would be to handle the splitting/formatting in the search itself, like this

index=foo sourcetype=bar [| gentimes start=-1 | eval host="$hosts$" | makemv host delim="," | mvexpand host | table host]

Re: How to pass multiple values for a field through token in a dashboard?

fpavlovi — Wed, 28 Feb 2018 05:02:04 GMT

Thanks for a great hint about <eval> for token modification, it helped me to modify a token in drilldown to get the first value of multivalue token:

<drilldown>
  <eval token="tok1">mvindex($row.multivalue_field$, 0)</eval>
  <set token="form.INPUT_TOKEN">$tok1$</set>
</drilldown>

Re: How to pass multiple values for a field through token in a dashboard?

newill — Thu, 13 Dec 2018 15:13:35 GMT

Sorry to dig this up from the past, but I used your advice here and it worked great (specifically the in search version) however, I have a question. My scenario is that I have a dashboard set up to search data based on Userid. We wanted to be able to enter multiple userids into a text box to search. This worked for us, however, say I have 6 users A, B, C, D, E, F and I enter A,B,C in to my search, I get everything for A B and C, but also 1 or two events for D and F, even though I didn't say anything in my query about D or F. Any idea why I'd be getting extra events in my results?