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How to search number of active VPN users over time

trajedy
New Member

Hi all,

I've been working on getting the number of active VPN users from our ASA logs by a simple query to get the latest event for a user+IP and checking if its a vpn_start event, and counting the total.
Premise being that if a start event has been last logged, the session is still currently active:

index=ciscoasa (eventtype="cisco_vpn_start" OR eventtype="cisco_vpn_end")
| dedup user, src_ip sortby -_time
| eval Active=if(eventtype="cisco_vpn_start",1,null)
| stats count(Active)

This works fine at a point in time when i run the search/refresh dashboard etc. however i want to be able to timechart this over a day/week to show me how many active connections i have at different intervals of the day. i.e.
at
7am - 10 active sessions
7:30am - 15 active sessions
8am - 20 active sessions
8:30am - 30 active sessions

I only want it to show the active sessions at that particular point in time, not how many sessions were started/stopped in the interval prior, so some way of "executing" the search at different times and mapping the results. Or if there's a better way.

Any thoughts or suggestions?

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sb01splunk
Explorer

I know this is old but did you ever come up with a query that worked over time?

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woodcock
Esteemed Legend

You should be able to easily adapt my answer from this question:
https://answers.splunk.com/answers/319585/how-to-graph-the-number-of-active-sessions-over-ti.html

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