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Splunk Query for license usages

rohitvjoshi
Path Finder

Hi All,

Can you please help me with the search query to extract the license usages for last 1 yr, I am trying below search query but it is taking too long to extract the results.

Please suggest the same.

Thanks

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dkeck
Influencer

Do you have internals over one year? Default is 30 days if you did not change that you will not get your report over one year

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chrisyounger
SplunkTrust
SplunkTrust

I can't see the query you are currently using, but I would suggest the following approach:

Run a query like this to try and determine the average size of events. Run it over a small time frame (maybe a week or so).
some_search | eval len = len(_raw) | stats avg(_len)

Then after you know roughly the average size of events you can run a query over the full time range and count how many events have occured. For example:
some_search | stats count

Multiple the result by your average event size to get a rough indication of how much license you used for that search.

You can also use tstats to really speed things up. If you post your search I can try make a tstats version for you.

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