Why history command only shows my searches, not searches run by all users?

[ashari]

I want to see all the searches that are run on Splunk server in a given time by different users. I am using the “|History” command which shows all the splunk searches that I have run but it does not show the searches run by other users.
Can you please help me to sort that out.

Thanks

[MuS · Accepted solution]

Hi ashari,

the history command can only be used to view the current user's search history.
If you need to see all searches done by all users, you need an account that can read index=_audit and search something like this:

 index=_audit action=search info=granted search=* NOT "search_id='scheduler" NOT "search='|history" NOT "user=splunk-system-user" NOT "search='typeahead" NOT "search='| metadata type=* | search totalCount>0" | stats count by user search _time | sort _time | convert ctime(_time) | stats list(_time) as time list(search) as search by user

hope this helps ...

cheers, MuS

[iamsahilshaiks]

Is the | history command supposed to include details of scheduled searches as well? It's not clearly mentioned in the documentation, so I'm asking for clarification.

[isoutamo]

It's better to create a new questions instead of use old closed thread to get more comments.

[ashari]

Thanks, it works fine.

[phudinhha]

Hi MuS,

Do we need to specify the username to search for this?