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Stat user duration connection

gloudou
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Hello,

I would like to know if it's possible with Splunk to know the connection time of each user by day or month for example.

Thanks.

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lguinn2
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You could try this:

yoursearchere |
transaction username ip startswith="Start connection." endswith="End connection" |
stats sum(duration) as TimeOnline by username |
fieldformat TimeOnline = tostring(TimeOnline,"duration")

However, if you have a large number of users who login in one day, the transaction command may not work well. But try this and see...

lguinn2
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To count the number of connections per user:

yoursearchere |
eval transactionEnd=0 |
eval transactionEnd=case(match(_raw,".*end connection 1.*"),1,
match(_raw,".*end connection 2.*"),1)
transaction username ip startswith="Start connection."
endswith=eval(transactionEnd==1) |
stats count as numberOfConnections by username

Although a month may be too long of a timespan for the transaction command... If so, you might consider using a summary index to collect the daily info (number of Connections and TimeOnline)

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lguinn2
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yoursearchere |
eval transactionEnd=0 |
eval transactionEnd=case(match(_raw,".*end connection 1.*"),1,
match(_raw,".*end connection 2.*"),1)
transaction username ip startswith="Start connection."
endswith=eval(transactionEnd==1) |
stats sum(duration) as TimeOnline by username |
fieldformat TimeOnline = tostring(TimeOnline,"duration")

That may help. The match function is case sensitive, so be exact!

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