Splunk Search

Filter Search - Only Results with One Field Value per Entry

bcarr12
Path Finder

Hi all,

Is there any quick/straightforward way to filter results of a search so that only search results that have one occurrence of a field in them are displayed.

For example, I have a search that returns results where some have one occurrence of "transaction id" (always a unique number) and other results have multiple occurrences within that one result entry. I am trying to filter my search so it only includes results with one transaction id. What would be the best way to do this? Is this something that defining a transaction could help with?

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Ayn
Legend

If multiple ID's result in a multivalued field containing the respective values, you could do:

yourbasesearch | where mvcount(transaction_id)=1

bcarr12
Path Finder

Hmm...I ran the search with this command but the results did not change. I apologize I cannot post the exact search and results due to the data generated, but the overall idea is that some results look like this:

....transaction_id=123456789....

while other results look like this:
...transaction_id:02345678....transaction_id:0028746553...transaction_id:9948777553...

So the idea is that I would only want to return results that have one transaction_id field value in them, as opposed to ones where there are multiple transaction_id occurrences in one result.

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