I have a field "LYC_USERNAME" that shows up in our logs. In order to determine the total number of distinct users of our system, I would like to sum all distinct values of that field over a custom time range (or over all time). I have managed to determine the total new users by running:
but this gives me a single number. I would like to see how the number increases over time by plotting it on a chart. Appending | timechart ucount
to the end of the search query does not work, unfortunately.
Thanks!
Well, you can use dedup command with sortby:
| dedup LYC_USERNAME sortby -_indextime
This will keep only the first (oldest) occurence of LYC_USERNAME in your results, then you can build your timechart / streamstats on this. Note that in this example the sorting is done by the time of indexing the event. This might match your requirements, otherwise change this to another field.
dedup will not do what you need.
No.
The dedup will work in the opposite way, since the newest events are returned first from a search. Thus your search will show that you 50 new users today, 10 yesterday and then keep falling as you move back in time.
<search> | timechart span=1d dc(LYC_USERNAME) as usercount | delta usercount as "New Users"
Try this instead.
/K
Take a look at the question presented in URL:
It might help you.
Or you may do this:
<search> | timechart span=1d dc(LYC_USERNAME) as ucount
In this example it will calculate the number of unique LYC_USERNAME found in a day. For example: If the time period of the search is the last 7 days, the result set will be the unique number of users found per day within these 7 days. You can modify the value of span as you need it (e.g, 1d, 1h, 6h).
Thanks,
Lp
I think I've figured it out: