Splunk Search

Best way to obtain event counts from a massive search

rmcdougal
Path Finder

Specifically, I am attempting to gather a count of firewall denies per day over an entire month. Running that search takes quite a long time. I am wondering if there is a more efficient way to perform this search than just performing the search and waiting for the results.

sourcetype=cisco_asa eventtype=cisco_firewall eventtype=firewall_deny | count by dest_ip

Is there a way to run the search for a one day period and store the count in a csv and then pull from the csv? Or is there something else?

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martin_mueller
SplunkTrust
SplunkTrust

This sounds like the perfect task for either summary indexing or report acceleration, depending on your specific needs and preferences.

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