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Combining Two Fields For Searching

henryt1
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So I'm trying to run a search in Splunk and have two fields combined to return one larger field. My basic search is:

(host="web01.inno-360.com" AND source="/var/log/apache2/basf_ssl_access.log" AND "/profile-services/talent") OR (host="zakta01.inno-360.com" AND basf-landscaping.inno-360.com AND "GET /search" AND query=*)

From that I'm interested in two fields: 1) 'query' 2) 'q'. I would like to combine these two fields to end with something like:

... | stats count by newField

From searching I have tried using eval like this:

... | eval newField= query." ".q | stats count by newField

However I've had absolutely no luck at all with this. Any help with this would be greatly appreciated.

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sdaniels
Splunk Employee
Splunk Employee

Your eval statement is fine. You need to fix the stats count. This should do it.

. | eval newField= query." ".q | stats count(newField)

Then you could do | stats count(newField) by newField

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