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How do you compare multiple related fields in one search?

Marinus
Communicator

I'd like to compare the configuration of several nodes using a single search. Each node has multiple keys expressed as one key value pair per event i.e.

timestamp audit=true
timestamp enabled=true

Is there a way to compare all the keys against each other and report deltas?

I've updated the quested to ensure it's correctly formatted.

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carasso
Splunk Employee
Splunk Employee

Yes, if I understand properly.

Join all events about a single node with a transaction, then each transaction will have all the values.

   ...| transaction some_node_id_field ...

from there, there are many things you can do -- compare particular nodes like this:

 | diff pos1=1 pos2=2 enables

get top combinations...

 | top audit, enables

cluster nodes to similar nodes...

 | cluster
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