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Heya Guys,
I'm very new to Splunk and this is likely an obvious answer or I have skimmed across documentation and missed it.
So at the moment, we are ingesting logs from Google cloud, and I am interested in finding specific words such as 'error', 'fail', etc. However, I do not know the specific field name where this might appear.
Is there a search I could run as a sort of catch all that could pick up on this within our environment?
Something like the below?
index="gcp_logs" (message contains 'error' OR 'fail*')
Any help would be appreciated.
Tom
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Assuming those words occur in the raw event, just enter those words as search terms: index="gcp_logs" ("error" OR "fail*")
Have you gone through the Fundamentals 1 training course yet? If not: I can really recommend it. It's a great introduction into the concepts of Splunk and the basic workings of the search language 🙂
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Really useful guys, this was exactly what I was after!
Will be starting the Splunk Fundamentals shortly as well 🙂
Kind Regards,
Tom
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HI,
just simple search for the word
index="gcp_logs" error
BUT keep in mind there will be an AND between a error and another word you want to search.
So if you search for error fail, add a OR if you want events with both. so error OR fail
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Assuming those words occur in the raw event, just enter those words as search terms: index="gcp_logs" ("error" OR "fail*")
Have you gone through the Fundamentals 1 training course yet? If not: I can really recommend it. It's a great introduction into the concepts of Splunk and the basic workings of the search language 🙂
