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Comparing login events from multiple applications

rjm101
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I would like to construct a bar graph comparing login events between two applications however I'm having trouble joining my two search queries. They both rely on count as I simply need to count the number of login events per application.

I believe the associated table would need to be output like so:

Application name | Login count
APP1 | 10
APP2 | 22

index=tracking_all topic="DATA.TRACKING.DEBATCHED.APP1" payload.props.schema="*login*" 
| stats count as APP1
| join count [search index=tracking_all topic="DATA.TRACKING.DEBATCHED.APP2" payload.props.schema="*login*" | stats count as APP2]
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richgalloway
SplunkTrust
SplunkTrust

Joining by count doesn't make sense to me. Try this, which should perform better without the join.

index=tracking_all payload.props.schema="*login*" | rex field=topic "\.(?P<app>\w+)$" | stats count by app | rename app as "Application name", count as "Login count" | table "Application name" "Login count"
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rjm101
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I should probably mention that my apps aren't actually called app1 and app2, if they were I'd think that would be poor naming on my behalf. Is there a way to do this based on two app names that don't follow a pattern?

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richgalloway
SplunkTrust
SplunkTrust

My answer presumes the app name can be extracted from the topic field, but the names themselves don't matter. Feel free to change the rex command to fit the real world.

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