topic Re: Count By Date in Splunk Search

Count By Date

gn694 — Mon, 28 Sep 2020 14:08:06 GMT

I have a search created, and want to get a count of the events returned by date. I know the date and time is stored in time, but I dont want to Count By _time, because I only care about the date, not the time. Is there a way to get the date out of _time (I tried to build a rex, but it didnt work..)
I also tried to do a count based on date_mday, but when adding that I got no results returned (nor did I get any results when I just added something like date_mday > 1 to the search string) - seems like the date fields are not populated for me (in this case, these are events from the Windows System log.)

Any suggestions on how to count by date?

thankx.

Re: Count By Date

yannK — Wed, 19 Jun 2013 22:52:13 GMT

Convert _time to a date in the needed format.

* | convert timeformat="%Y-%m-%d" ctime(_time) AS date | stats count by date

see http://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/5.0.3/SearchReference/Convert

Re: Count By Date

gn694 — Wed, 19 Jun 2013 23:09:47 GMT

Thank you!!!

Re: Count By Date

idaaa — Thu, 20 Jun 2013 12:39:27 GMT

| eval date=strftime(_time, "%y-%m-%d") | stats count by date

Re: Count By Date

hoanlq — Thu, 09 Feb 2017 13:28:47 GMT

Thanks a lot

Re: Count By Date

dkhiggs — Fri, 29 Jan 2021 20:31:34 GMT

"%F" is equivalent to "%Y-%m-%d"