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Last event grouped by

oscargarcia
Path Finder

Hi,

I am building an app for managing some network switches. One of the views I want to create has the same data list:

For a given period of time, grouped by host, the date of the last event that matches certain criteria.

I can do that easily with "| tail 1", but that only covers one host or query. With the stats command, I can easily find the number of events matched grouped by host, but I am struggling to find the last one only for every host.

Any ideas?

Many thanks!

1 Solution

mw
Splunk Employee
Splunk Employee

How about:

... | stats last(_raw) by host

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mw
Splunk Employee
Splunk Employee

How about:

... | stats last(_raw) by host

Ayn
Legend

dedup host

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YisroelB
Explorer

It seems that once you do this you lose access to the fields and would have to parse it out manually. For example if you pipe the above to "| table _time" _time is empty. Any way around this?

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oscargarcia
Path Finder

so elegant... I love it... thanks!

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