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Find duplicate events for a pattern that occurred in the same timestamp

gbehl
New Member

My requirement is to find duplicate events for a pattern that occurred in the same 'second' of timestamp after stripping the millisecond value.

queries that I tried but didn't give me 100% success:

search_pattern | timechart span=1s count | where count >1

search_pattern | timechart span=1s count | where count >1 | table _time, _raw

Not sure if 'eventcount summarize=false' or 'eventstats' would be of any help here.

P.S. I've recently started on splunk hence my knowledge is limited but I can work with pointers and do hit n trial approach.

Any pointers are appreciated.

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woodcock
Esteemed Legend

Like this:

search_pattern | bin span=1s _time | eventstats count AS duplicate_count BY _raw | search duplicate_count > 1
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somesoni2
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Give this a try (would be very resource intensive so run for small time ranges)

search_pattern | bucket span=1s _time | stats count first(_raw) as raw by _time | where count>1 | rename raw as _raw
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gbehl
New Member

It works fine except the fact that it picks the first row and ignores the other rows. After running this query, I realized that there are some exceptions in data where I would need all the _raw rows which I can get by doing an extra click. I can live with that for now.

Thanks a lot!

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somesoni2
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This query is written to collect first row (as we assume they're all same, may be different millisecond). If you want all _raw data in the result, simply replace first(_raw) with values(_raw) (to get unique raw events) OR list(_raw) to get all raw events.

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