topic Search Question: Event Sampling in Splunk Search

Search Question: Event Sampling

adalbor — Thu, 18 Jul 2019 18:16:34 GMT

Does anyone know of a good way to pull one event of a specific eventcode/type when searching for multiple eventcodes?

It doesn't appear that event sampling can do something like that.

I was hoping to run a search for all Windows EventCodes and to only return one event of each type.

Is that possible?

Thanks,
Andrew

Re: Search Question: Event Sampling

niketn — Fri, 19 Jul 2019 02:35:09 GMT

@adalbor for the community to assist you better can you please add more details? What are the fields you have/are interested in and what is does your current SPL/data looks like?

Can you try one of the following?

<yourSearchToPullData>
| dedup EventCode
| table EventCode *

Or with stats

<yourSearchToPullData>
| stats latest(*) as * by EventCode

Re: Search Question: Event Sampling

adalbor — Fri, 19 Jul 2019 14:05:16 GMT

That was too easy! Thank you!
I used
index=wineventlog
| dedup EventCode
| table EventCode,Message

Re: Search Question: Event Sampling

niketn — Fri, 19 Jul 2019 16:31:41 GMT

@adalbor I have converted my comment to answer. Please accept to mark this question as answered. Also, if you have used dedup also add fields before dedup to retain only the fields you are interested in.

 index=wineventlog
 | fields EventCode Message
 | dedup EventCode
 | table EventCode Message