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Transactioned Orphaned Events

swright_rl
Explorer

Hi Everyone,

I'm building / improving one of the alerts which we use to detect when a event log has been turned off from logging.

index=wineventlog tag=Reboot OR tag=Clear
| transaction endswith=tag=Clear startswith=tag=Reboot maxevents=2 maxspan=30m keeporphans=t
| stats list(duration) as Duration by dest
| mvexpand Duration
| where Duration>300 

The code above works great, although I'm struggling to finish it off.

I'm trying to find if a log has been cleared without a corresponding reboot has taken place. I'm guessing that I need to use keeporphans, but I can't get it to be placed in the stats field for that specific event.

Any help is appreciated.

Thanks

Steve

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swright_rl
Explorer

Answered my own question

index=wineventlog tag=Reboot OR tag=Clear 
| transaction endswith=tag=Clear startswith=tag=Reboot maxevents=2 maxspan=40m  keepevicted=true 
| stats list(duration) as Duration by dest 
| mvexpand Duration 
| append  
    [ search index=wineventlog tag=Reboot OR tag=Clear 
    | transaction endswith=tag=Clear startswith=tag=Reboot maxevents=2 maxspan=40m  keepevicted=true
    | search closed_txn=0 
    | eval Lone=if(closed_txn=0 AND EventCode=1100,"1","0") 
    | stats list(Lone) as Lone_Clear by dest 
    | mvexpand Lone_Clear 
    | where Lone_Clear=1] 
| where Duration>1800 OR Lone_Clear=1

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swright_rl
Explorer

Answered my own question

index=wineventlog tag=Reboot OR tag=Clear 
| transaction endswith=tag=Clear startswith=tag=Reboot maxevents=2 maxspan=40m  keepevicted=true 
| stats list(duration) as Duration by dest 
| mvexpand Duration 
| append  
    [ search index=wineventlog tag=Reboot OR tag=Clear 
    | transaction endswith=tag=Clear startswith=tag=Reboot maxevents=2 maxspan=40m  keepevicted=true
    | search closed_txn=0 
    | eval Lone=if(closed_txn=0 AND EventCode=1100,"1","0") 
    | stats list(Lone) as Lone_Clear by dest 
    | mvexpand Lone_Clear 
    | where Lone_Clear=1] 
| where Duration>1800 OR Lone_Clear=1
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