topic Re: Forage Task Guide in Splunk Search

Forage Task Guide

MatthewWolf — Mon, 19 Aug 2024 13:57:28 GMT

The task guide for the Forage job sim states this:

For example, to add “Count by category” to your dashboard, type out
sourcetype="fraud_detection.csv" | top category in the search field. This action counts
the number in each category

Yet I am guessing Splunk has been updated since the task guide was created because the search doesn't register the command. I have tried others but, am not receiving the desired results.

Does anyone know about this? or a different command to give me a valid bar chart in visualization?

Re: Forage Task Guide

tej57 — Thu, 29 Aug 2024 12:09:48 GMT

Hello @MatthewWolf,

If you need the number of event counts for a particular category, you can use the following search:

index=<<index_name>> sourcetype="fraud_detection.csv" | stats count by category | sort - count

This will give you output of all the categories present with event count in decreasing order (i.e. highest count first).

Thanks,
Tejas.

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