Splunk Search

Help with Field Extraction - How draft the if condition to achieve following logic?

zacksoft_wf
Contributor

I want to do a field extraction for my sourcetype under the Fields-> Calculated Fields section. Confused how to draft the if condition to achieve the following logic.

Condition.
Some events contain  only the userid field, for those, check if it is not null/empty, then fetch the userid field as user or fill unknown
Some events contain both userid and cmdid field, in this case (if the event has both these fields) cmdid is the real user field. so the logic in both cases should first compare the existence of those 2 fields and then accordingly derive.

Labels (1)
Tags (1)
0 Karma
1 Solution

richgalloway
SplunkTrust
SplunkTrust

Try this

user = coalesce(cmdid, userid, "unknown")
---
If this reply helps you, Karma would be appreciated.

View solution in original post

richgalloway
SplunkTrust
SplunkTrust

Try this

user = coalesce(cmdid, userid, "unknown")
---
If this reply helps you, Karma would be appreciated.
Got questions? Get answers!

Join the Splunk Community Slack to learn, troubleshoot, and make connections with fellow Splunk practitioners in real time!

Meet up IRL or virtually!

Join Splunk User Groups to connect and learn in-person by region or remotely by topic or industry.

Get Updates on the Splunk Community!

Vibe-coding, AI, and Splunkcraft: Highlights from the .conf26 Builder Bar

If you stopped by the Builder Bar at .conf26, thank you! This year, we brought ...

Thanks for the Memories: .conf26 Took Learning to New Heights

Thank you, Splunk Community, for making .conf26 in Denver one for the books. From packed Splunk University ...

Best Practices: Splunk auto adjust pipeline queue

When you enable autoAdjustQueue in Splunk, maxSize should be understood as the queue size Splunk starts with ...