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Chart of unique user logins per day

jeck11
Path Finder

I feel like an idiot because this should be simple. I'm trying to get a basic graph showing unique user logins per day for our Splunk Cloud environment. This search came from the "Utilization Monitor for Splunk" app and I thought it would be as easy as adding "by day" to the stats segment but that didn't work.

index=_audit user!="splunk-system-user" user!="N/A" user=* host=* NOT (action=log* info=fail*) | stats dc(user) as "Splunkers"

If I were the only user to log in and I only work mon-fri then I would expect the chart to be something like 0,1,1,1,1,1,0.
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Can someone please point out what I'm missing before I lose the little hair I have left?

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to4kawa
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index=_audit user!="splunk-system-user" user!="N/A" user=* host=* NOT (action=log* info=fail*)
| eval date_wday=strftime(_time,"%F")
| chart dc(user) as "Splunkers" by  date_wday,user
| eval date_wday=strftime(strptime(date_wday,"%F"),"%A")

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to4kawa
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index=_audit user!="splunk-system-user" user!="N/A" user=* host=* NOT (action=log* info=fail*)
| eval date_wday=strftime(_time,"%F")
| chart dc(user) as "Splunkers" by  date_wday,user
| eval date_wday=strftime(strptime(date_wday,"%F"),"%A")
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jeck11
Path Finder

index=_audit user!="splunk-system-user" user!="N/A" user=* host=* NOT (action=log* info=fail*)
| eval date_wday=strftime(_time,"%F")
| chart dc(user) as "Splunkers" by date_wday

Thank you! The strftime is the key for getting the data I needed.

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Anantha123
Communicator

Hi,

Try this

index=_audit user!="splunk-system-user" user!="N/A" user=* host=* NOT (action=log* info=fail*) | chart dc(user) as "Splunkers" by user , date_wday

Thanks
Anantha

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jeck11
Path Finder

That broke it down more granularly than I was looking for. I updated the question with an example chart.

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