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Create table containing hosts,sources metadata?

gowen
Path Finder

I would like to have a list of all the hosts (over some period of time, presumably) and the sources that they've generated logs entries with. A simple table format would work, so there'd be 10 lines for host X, each with a different source listed, if host X generated logs for 10 sources.

More simply:

host1,source1
host1,source2
host2,source1
host2,source3
host2,source4

Is there a way I can get this information? I see how to pull hosts using metadata, and I see how to pull sources using metadata, but I don't see how the two can be related.

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lguinn2
Legend

You will have to actually count them up:

index=* | stats count by host, source

should do it.

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lguinn2
Legend

You will have to actually count them up:

index=* | stats count by host, source

should do it.

gowen
Path Finder

Excellent, gives me just what I was looking for.

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sbrant_tt
Explorer

You can use the following search to accomplish this (slightly different output than you've specified):

* | chart values(source) by host

Or, if you want to include the all (including internal) indexes:

index=* | chart values(source) by host

gowen
Path Finder

Very good, thank you - even though the output format wasn't what I was thinking of, it's still useful and it helps me think in terms of how chart can help me. Thanks!

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