topic Re: Transaction grouping in Splunk Search

Transaction grouping

katalinali — Thu, 21 Oct 2010 14:35:23 GMT

Hi all,

I have a transaction which have keyword "start" and "stop", I use startswith and endswith to define the whole transaction, but the problem is the system will detect if it can't finish, it will reload the transaction again, so the log will like:

start action... start action... ...... end

Do someone know how can I get the correct duration between to ? Thanks

Re: Transaction grouping

ppang — Thu, 21 Oct 2010 15:14:51 GMT

Kat, try to just use only either startswith or endswith. e.g. if you see multiple "start" keyword, then one "stop" keyword, you should use * | transaction your_field endswith "stop"

Re: Transaction grouping

BenTan — Fri, 18 Dec 2015 08:35:11 GMT

Just a thought, does adding maxspan and maxpause help?

Re: Transaction grouping

kmugglet — Wed, 25 May 2016 16:43:58 GMT

Remember, in an unsorted Splunk time stream everything is 'backwards' so you might be looking startswith="stop" and endswith="start", as Stop would be the first event it came to.