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Elimination of duplicate logins over time

DonDandrea
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My problem is that in my data source, when a user logs on there can be a single entry or multiple entries. I need to eliminate the duplicates for each time interval but allow for future events by that User ID. I have tried dedup and distinct count. Does anyone have any suggestions?

index=* prdwfcs*/88 WFCSUID=UserID | stats count dc(WFCSUID)

index=* prdwfcs*/88 WFCSUID=UserID | dedup WFCSUID
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somesoni2
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If the duplicates have same timestamp and other entries from that User Id are different, dedup of _time should do the job for you.

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somesoni2
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If the duplicates have same timestamp and other entries from that User Id are different, dedup of _time should do the job for you.

ppablo
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Just took care of it @Jeff_Lightly_Splunk 🙂

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Jeff_Lightly_Sp
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DonDandrea
Path Finder

Thank you somesoni2. dedup by _time did solve my issue.

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DonDandrea
Path Finder

Yes, they have the same time stamp. I had not thought of it from that aspect. Thank you!

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somesoni2
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Does the multiple/duplicate login entries have same time stamp? Could you post some sample of duplicate entries?

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