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How to generate a graph to show daily unique users?

greekindian
New Member

I would like to generate a graph that shows the daily unique visitors login based on their e-mail address.

If i logged in yesterday and today, my login should show yesterday and today.
Currently I am running the following search and that shows my login only once.

Below is the search string I am using:

   "login *" sourcetype="*prod_logs"  | rex field=_raw "login (?<email>.*)"  | | dedup email | eval month_day=strftime(_time,"%2y/%2m/%2d") | chart count by month_day [Date Range: Month to date]

Any suggestion on how to graph the unique logins for each day and not unique for "Month to date"?

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FrankVl
Ultra Champion

See the answers below for working alternative solutions. Just wanted to point out why yours doesn’t work as intended:
You do a dedup by email, which retains only a single event per user, loosing information on the date. You should have included _time in your dedup command.

christoph_puppe
Engager

Even easier, when you use the _time of the event, then:

"login " sourcetype="*prod_logs" | rex field=_raw "login (?.)"

| timechart dc(email)

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chanfoli
Builder

Try using distinct count like this:

 "login *" sourcetype="*prod_logs"  | rex field=_raw "login (?<email>.*)"  | eval month_day=strftime(_time,"%2y/%2m/%2d") | chart dc(email) by month_day
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