Splunk Search

Is my search syntax for finding top 10 URLs visited by user correct?

bagarwal
Path Finder

Hello Everyone,

I am running a search to find out the top 10 URLs visited by a single user:

index=ciscoasa user="" | top  10 URL

Is the search syntax fine? Because it is taking a lot of time to retrieve the results. Is there another way?

Thanks & Regards,
Binay Agarwal

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skoelpin
SplunkTrust
SplunkTrust

Yes this is correct, just assuming you have a value in user="skoelpin"

I'm assuming your index is pretty massive since it has a lot of URLs in it. To decrease the time you could use event sampling, narrow down the time range, or put your data into a summary index which would massively increase the reporting speed.

https://wiki.splunk.com/Community:Summary_Indexing

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skoelpin
SplunkTrust
SplunkTrust

Yes this is correct, just assuming you have a value in user="skoelpin"

I'm assuming your index is pretty massive since it has a lot of URLs in it. To decrease the time you could use event sampling, narrow down the time range, or put your data into a summary index which would massively increase the reporting speed.

https://wiki.splunk.com/Community:Summary_Indexing

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