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How often users are searching for old data

shahzadarif
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Is it possible to find out what time range Splunk users are searching for? We're upgrading our multi-site cluster from 6.3.3 to 6.4.2 to take advantage of tsidx reduction feature.
http://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/6.4.2/Indexer/Reducetsidxdiskusage
I need to figure out what time range users are searching for? In particular how often searches are run against data that's more than 30/60 days old in 24 hours period? How can I find out this information? What search do I need to run on CM/SHs?

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martin_mueller
SplunkTrust
SplunkTrust

index=_audit action=search info=granted search=* has the time range used in apiStartTime and apiEndTime.

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ddrillic
Ultra Champion

Interesting discussion about this at - what is apiStartTime='ZERO_TIME'

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