How to monitor three users?

[woodlandrelic]

Hi 

My system is Linux.  Am trying to monitor 3 users in an index.  The last time they login, IP address etc. There are over 180+ user. How do I get the search to show just the three users I want e.g James Peter and John?

Thanks

[PaulPanther · Accepted solution]

Hi @woodlandrelic 

if they fields for user, login time and IP address are already extracted you could set up a search like that

index=abc user IN (James,Peter,John)
|stats latest(login_time) by ip_address, user

[woodlandrelic]

@PaulPanther 

Thanks. I have another user am monitoring in another index. Is there a way to combine both or will have to save them as a report individually?

[PaulPanther]

You could combine both indexes like

(index=abc OR index=def) user IN (James,Peter,John)
|stats latest(login_time) by ip_address, user

But that's a bit theoretical because I don't know if the data source  or format that you wanna search through is the same. Feel free to provide some more information about the events.

[woodlandrelic]

@PaulPanther 

Fantastic! It worked. I will find my way from here. Appreciate the quick help. Thanks