topic Re: how to find what commands in the search language are being used in Splunk Search

how to find what commands in the search language are being used

harishsplunk7 — Mon, 06 Nov 2023 15:11:50 GMT

I want to list what commands in the search language are being used. I think its possible in the same _audit index and I want to be able to do is count the number of times each command is used in search

Example :

stats used 2 time

eval used 5 times

rex used 7 time

timechart used 10 time

Re: how to find what commands in the search language are being used

ITWhisperer — Mon, 06 Nov 2023 15:37:48 GMT

You could start with something like this:

index=_audit | rex max_match=0 field=search "\|\s*(?<command>\w+)" | stats count by command

However, you may get some false results if pipes are used in the search where they are not delimiting commands. Also, you may find that macros hide the use of some commands.

Re: how to find what commands in the search language are being used

richgalloway — Mon, 06 Nov 2023 18:02:22 GMT

There is a REST endpoint, /services/search/v2/parser, you may be able to use to parse queries into the commands used. It requires the POST method so it will have to be used from a script (not from the UI). See https://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/9.1.1/RESTREF/RESTsearch#search.2Fv2.2Fparser

Re: how to find what commands in the search language are being used

harishsplunk7 — Mon, 06 Nov 2023 19:03:23 GMT

Thank you, I am getting the result but unwanted fields are coming like jira, macro, filename. How to get rid of this from result

Re: how to find what commands in the search language are being used

ITWhisperer — Mon, 06 Nov 2023 23:35:26 GMT

| where command!="jira" AND command!="macro" AND command!="filename"