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ytl
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so i have logs where a log entry is generated when things are bad; and another when it's good. i can typically use 'transaction' to group these together; however, i only care to get information when i get one entry (bad) but not the related other (good).

so i have each event tagged with 'up' or 'down', so i was thinking of doing something where if the last entry is 'down', then i want some output - like in a table by the host.

any idea how this could be implemented?

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netwrkr
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This isn't too hard. Using the transaction command along with 'startswith' and 'endswith' you want to search on transactions that aren't closed and then output those unclosed (or evicted) transactions "|search closed_txn=0"

keepevicted= Description: Whether to output evicted transactions. Evicted transactions are events that do NOT match the transaction parameters; for example, the time range is wrong, or the "startswith" or "endswith" requirements are missing. Evicted transactions can be distinguished from non-evicted transactions by checking the value of the 'closed_txn' field, which is set to '0' for evicted transactions and '1' for closed ones. A transaction is evicted from memory when the memory limitations are reached.

HTH

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