Getting Data In

Find files that are not being accessed

christopher_hod
Path Finder

The scenario:
I have a scripted input that gives me a list of files in a directory. On a regular basis I want to run a search that will see how many times each of those has been served by the webserver. I also want to include in the report any files that have not been hit in the report.

Assume the subsearch for the list of files is just:

[search sourcetype=dirlist | fields filename ]

And that it's searching against normal apache access logs.

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1 Solution

dwaddle
SplunkTrust
SplunkTrust

Maybe something like:

sourcetype=access_combined [ search sourcetype=dirlist | fields filename ]
| stats count as hitcount by filename
| append [ search sourcetype=dirlist | fields filename | eval hitcount=0 ]
| stats max(hitcount) by filename

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dwaddle
SplunkTrust
SplunkTrust

Maybe something like:

sourcetype=access_combined [ search sourcetype=dirlist | fields filename ]
| stats count as hitcount by filename
| append [ search sourcetype=dirlist | fields filename | eval hitcount=0 ]
| stats max(hitcount) by filename
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