Splunk Search

How to get the list of Adhoc Search and Saved search running by user in Audit logs.

harishsplunk7
Explorer

I need to get the  list of Adhoc Searches and Saved search running by user in Audit logs.

how to differentiate these searches in _audit logs, is there any specific keyword to identify the searches 

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richgalloway
SplunkTrust
SplunkTrust

Searches are in the audit log.  Saved searches will have a non-empty value in the savedsearch_name field.  The user name is in the user field.

index=_audit action=search
| table user savedsearch_name search
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If this reply helps you, Karma would be appreciated.
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harishsplunk7
Explorer

This is not working at all, We will get all the searches running in splunk. because there is no keyword to identify whether search is savedsearch or Ad-hoc search or Reports. 

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richgalloway
SplunkTrust
SplunkTrust

As stated in my response, a saved search will have a non-empty value in the savedsearch_name field (keyword).  If savedsearch_name="" then the search is ad-hoc.

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If this reply helps you, Karma would be appreciated.
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