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How to extract random numbers

marinella26
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There are over 10000 events and I want to extract events of 100 random Users.
Is there any simple way to extract this?

Thanks in advance!

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ITWhisperer
SplunkTrust
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<your search> [search <your search>|dedup user|eval number=random()|sort 0 number|head 100|table user]

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ITWhisperer
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<your search> [search <your search>|dedup user|eval number=random()|sort 0 number|head 100|table user]

marinella26
Explorer

@ITWhisperer  it worked. Thank you so much!

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