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Using transaction to detect timeouts

jbrenner
Path Finder

I would like to use the transaction command to find adjacent log entries with the same IP and different Session IDs.
Ideally, I would only like to return adjacent pairs of log statements with at least a 15 minute timestamp difference between them.

Here is the REX I'm using to extract SESSION_ID:

rex field=_raw "-S:(?<SESSION_ID>\w+)-"

Thanks!
Jonathan

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woodcock
Esteemed Legend

Try this:

Your Base Search Here
|  rex field=_raw "-S:(?<SESSION_ID>\w+)-"
| streamstats time_window=900 min(_time) AS start range(_time) AS duration values(SESSION_ID) dc(SESSION_ID) AS numSessions BY host
| search numSessions>1
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cmerriman
Super Champion

some examples of your data would be helpful. transaction will only allow you to put in arguments for max pause, though you could search for durations after the fact.

|transaction IP SESSION_ID maxevents=2|search duration>=900

https://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/SplunkCloud/6.6.1/SearchReference/Transaction

i prefer streamstats, myself.

|sort 0 IP SESSION_ID + _time
| streamstats window=1 current=f values(_time) as previousTime by IP SESSION_ID|eval duration=_time-previousTime|search duration>=900

http://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/SplunkCloud/6.6.1/SearchReference/Streamstats

just for ideas.

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