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how to set an alert for user failed to login to multiple times on multiple server

Girish_RH
New Member

Required a usecase for
** user failed to login to multiple times on multiple server**

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hok2010
New Member

Hi Girish,
please try this one
this is for windowsevent logs

----SPL Query-----
sourcetype="wineventlog:security" EventCode=4625
| eval Account_Name=mvindex(Account_Name,1)
| stats values(ComputerName) as Servers_failing by Account_Name
| where mvcount(Servers_failing)>1

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richgalloway
SplunkTrust
SplunkTrust

Once you have your failed login events, you can use the stats command to group them by user and count the number of failures. It'll be something like this:

<your search for failed logins> | stats count, dc(machine) as machines by user | where (count > <some number>) AND (machines > 1)
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If this reply helps you, Karma would be appreciated.
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