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Help with extracting the fields and related data from vmstat logs which are coming into Splunk

rohit1793
SplunkTrust
SplunkTrust

Hi All,

Can you please help me to extract the fields and related data from vmstat logs which are coming into splunk,Below the logs lines:

memTotalMB memFreeMB memUsedMB memFreePct memUsedPct pgPageOut swapUsedPct pgSwapOut cSwitches interrupts forks processes threads loadAvg1mi waitThreads interrupts_PS pgPageIn_PS pgPageOut_PS
7000 xx8 xxx5 9.4 90.6 1561978416 100.0 85616943 4002987866 3965557908 66831877 250 3251 11.04 9.04 27902.02 48.24 2132.66

Rohit Joshi
Splunk Architect
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rohit1793
SplunkTrust
SplunkTrust

There is a command multikv, it works for tabled data like we get from Unix/Linux machines:

index=foo host=abc* sourcetype=vmstat
| bucket _time span=5m
| multikv fields
| stats avg(memUsedPct) as MemoryUsed by host

Rohit Joshi
Splunk Architect

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rohit1793
SplunkTrust
SplunkTrust

There is a command multikv, it works for tabled data like we get from Unix/Linux machines:

index=foo host=abc* sourcetype=vmstat
| bucket _time span=5m
| multikv fields
| stats avg(memUsedPct) as MemoryUsed by host

Rohit Joshi
Splunk Architect
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rmmiller
Contributor

Are you looking for help interpreting the data, i.e., what each numerical field represents? Or are you looking for help with parsing into individual fields?

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