Splunk Search

Get user's search history

Branden
Builder

Quick question: how can I view a user's search history?

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mparks11
Path Finder

That's awesome! Glad you were able to find out, and thanks for sharing!

Glenn
Builder

The solution for 5.x and later is to use the "history" command in search. Ie.

| history

See http://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/5.0.5/SearchReference/History

joebensimo
Path Finder

Also, "history" suffers from the same problem as the "Jobs" page: it doesn't contain the full history. Viewing a dashboard with an auto-refresh can quickly blow through all the history that is retained for "history".

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joebensimo
Path Finder

It appears that "history" only returns search history for the current user. Is there a way in 5.x to get history for all users?

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