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Fuzzy Search

tb5821
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I have a field called 'err_msg' this field contains a long line which consists of the error as well as the file name and other details surrounding that error. What I'm looking for is the ability to do a 'fuzzy' search in splunk on err_msg so that it will lump similar errors together. Is this possible?

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lpolo
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Did you try the cluster search command?

http://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/latest/SearchReference/Cluster

See also:

anomalies, anomalousvalue, kmeans, outlier

It might help you.

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lpolo
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Did you try the cluster search command?

http://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/latest/SearchReference/Cluster

See also:

anomalies, anomalousvalue, kmeans, outlier

It might help you.

tb5821
Communicator

Thanks looks like cluster will do the trick!

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