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How do I merge individual records in Splunk that contain a common field?

JohnGilmour
New Member

Hello All,

I have a number of individual records in Splunk, all with a common field of X, that i'm trying to combine.

E.g

User-name=JG, srcIP=10.0.0.1
User-name=JG,file=jg.docx
User-name=JG, dstIP=10.1.1.0
User-name=JG,Email=jg@jg.com
User-name=AB, srcIP=10.0.0.2
User-name=AB,file=AB.docx
User-name=AB, dstIP=10.2.2.0
User-name=AB,Email=AB@AB.com

I want to do the following search: Group all the records which match by the User-name fields, and allow me to manipulate the fields.

E.g

USERNAE, srcIP, file, dstIP, Email
JG, 10.0.0.1, jg.docx, 10.1.1.0, jg@jg.com
AB, 10.0.0.2, AB.docx, 10.2.2.0, AB@AB.com

initial thoughts, are that I do a Dedupe based on the Username, and then nest a search to pull data back; not sure!

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1 Solution

renjith_nair
SplunkTrust
SplunkTrust

@JohnGilmour,

Try

"your base search"|stats values(srcIP) as srcIP,values(file) as file,values(dstIP) as dstIP,values(Email) as Email by  User-name
Happy Splunking!

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macadminrohit
Contributor

Based on your data, i created a dummy search which might be useful to you:

| makeresults 
| eval Text="User-name=JG,srcIP=10.0.0.1:User-name=JG,file=jg.docx:User-name=JG,dstIP=10.1.1.0:User-name=JG,Email=jg@jg.com:User-name=AB,srcIP=10.0.0.2:User-name=AB,file=AB.docx:User-name=AB,dstIP=10.2.2.0:User-name=AB,Email=AB@AB.com" 
| makemv Text delim=":" 
| mvexpand Text 
| makemv Text delim=" " 
| eval Username=mvindex(split(Text,","),0) 
| eval field2=mvindex(split(Text,","),1) 
| table _time Username field2 
| makemv Username delim="=" 
| eval Username=mvindex(Username,1) 
| makemv field2 delim="=" 
| eval fieldname=mvindex(field2,0) 
| eval fieldvalue=mvindex(field2,1) 
| table _time Username fieldname fieldvalue 
| chart values(fieldvalue) over Username by fieldname
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renjith_nair
SplunkTrust
SplunkTrust

@JohnGilmour,

Try

"your base search"|stats values(srcIP) as srcIP,values(file) as file,values(dstIP) as dstIP,values(Email) as Email by  User-name
Happy Splunking!
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