topic Re: Why history command only shows my searches, not searches run by all users? in Splunk Search

Why history command only shows my searches, not searches run by all users?

ashari — Mon, 18 Aug 2014 11:50:32 GMT

I want to see all the searches that are run on Splunk server in a given time by different users. I am using the “|History” command which shows all the splunk searches that I have run but it does not show the searches run by other users.
Can you please help me to sort that out.

Thanks

Re: Why history command only shows my searches, not searches run by all users?

MuS — Mon, 18 Aug 2014 12:16:23 GMT

Hi ashari,

the history command can only be used to view the current user's search history.
If you need to see all searches done by all users, you need an account that can read index=_audit and search something like this:

 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

hope this helps ...

cheers, MuS

Re: Why history command only shows my searches, not searches run by all users?

ashari — Mon, 18 Aug 2014 14:08:05 GMT

Thanks, it works fine.

Re: Why history command only shows my searches, not searches run by all users?

phudinhha — Wed, 01 Apr 2015 21:25:31 GMT

Hi MuS,

Do we need to specify the username to search for this?

Re: Why history command only shows my searches, not searches run by all users?

iamsahilshaiks — Mon, 14 Jul 2025 10:02:51 GMT

Is the | history command supposed to include details of scheduled searches as well? It's not clearly mentioned in the documentation, so I'm asking for clarification.

Re: Why history command only shows my searches, not searches run by all users?

isoutamo — Mon, 14 Jul 2025 16:38:45 GMT

It's better to create a new questions instead of use old closed thread to get more comments.