topic Re: Search Logs in Splunk Search

Search Logs

IRHM73 — Mon, 17 Aug 2015 09:04:38 GMT

Hi, I wonder whether someone may be able to help me please.

From the answer I found here I'm using the query below to display searches that have been performed

index=_audit action=search info=granted search=* NOT "search_id='scheduler" NOT "search='|history" NOT "user=splunk-system-user" NOT "search='typeahead" NOT "search='| metadata type=* | search totalCount>0" | stats count by user search _time | sort _time | convert ctime(_time) | stats list(_time) as time list(search) as search by user

Could someone perhaps tell me please is there a way be which I can see how long the search took to run.

Many thanks and kind regards

Chris

Re: Search Logs

woodcock — Mon, 17 Aug 2015 21:30:49 GMT

Try this:

| rest/services/search/jobs | fields *search* *duration* *sec*s

Re: Search Logs

IRHM73 — Tue, 18 Aug 2015 05:28:58 GMT

Hi @woodcock thank you for taking the time to come back to me with this.

I've tried the code snippet you kindly provided, but unfortunately I receive the following error:

Error in 'rest' command: This command
must be the first command of a search.

So I tried to moving this to the beginning of the search but this also doesn't work.

Any ideas where I may have gone wrong please?

Many thanks and kind regards

Chris

Re: Search Logs

woodcock — Tue, 18 Aug 2015 06:17:47 GMT

My solution is not an extension to your original search but a 100% replacement for it. I tested it on v6.2.3 and it works just fine as-is. Use my solution's search string exactly as-is and it should give you everything you need (but in a totally different format).

Re: Search Logs

IRHM73 — Tue, 18 Aug 2015 06:36:16 GMT

Hi thank you for coming back to me with this, and my apologies for perhaps not making this clearer, but is there a way by which I can integrate the two because I'd like to include the search the user performed and the username?

Many thanks and kind regards

Chris

Re: Search Logs

woodcock — Tue, 18 Aug 2015 06:41:17 GMT

Get rid of everything after (and including) the | and see what fields are there (there is a username field but I don't recall what the name is).

Re: Search Logs

IRHM73 — Tue, 18 Aug 2015 06:42:42 GMT

Hi @woodcock that's great.

Kind regards and many thanks.

Chris