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Creating a chart by search terms

beaumygod
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If I have several terms I am searching for such as:

john OR frank OR mary OR jim OR jeff

How would I then create a chart of the sum or percentage of each search term, such as john returns 20 of 100 total results and is therefore 20% of the pie chart...

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ytamura
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If you create a field that contains those names, you can just use the top command:

john OR frank OR mary OR jim OR jeff | top name

Field extractions can be predefined or done on the fly. Resource for field extraction: http://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/latest/User/ExtractNewFields

Resource for top command:
http://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/latest/SearchReference/top

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