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Getting unique values of a field.

splunkpoornima
Communicator

Hi all. I have a field called TaskAction that has some 400 values. But, I only want the distinct values of that field.

Plz help me with the query.

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Ayn
Legend

There's dedup, and there's also the stats operator values.

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bbialek
Path Finder

This seems to work when trying to find unique values for a field, like 'host':
* | chart count by host

Ayn
Legend

There's dedup, and there's also the stats operator values.

andrewb_splunk
Splunk Employee
Splunk Employee

The Splunk Enterprise version 5.0 documentation from 2012 is no longer available. Similar information is available in newer versions of the Splunk documentation. Replace "5.0" in the URL with "latest" or a more recent version number to view the topics. 

dedup: https://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/latest/SearchReference/Dedup 

stats: https://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/latest/SearchReference/CommonStatsFunctions 

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slierninja
Communicator

stats values(field) is what I used.

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