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Windows EventLogs: 3 failed logins from 3 different users from same host

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Using Windows EventCodes I want to find 3 or more users failing to log in. So far my syntax is 

| stats values(user) as user count by host

which looks good. Now I only want to see > 2 users from the same host. | where count > 2 counts the total, not the different values in the "user" field. 

 

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Fe-atSplunk
Explorer

It was the dc I was missing, so thanks for your response!

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PickleRick
SplunkTrust
SplunkTrust

If your search is indeed literarily as you wrote it:

| stats values(user) as user count by host

Then you're getting two different stats values per host - one is a multivalue single field containing all the users for this host, the second one is a sum of all events for this host.

That's probably not what you wanted.

You might list the values and count it afterwards:

| stats values(user) as users by host | eval usercount=mvcount(users)

But it's not very pretty

Or you might use dc(user)

| stats values(user) as users dc(user) as usercount by host
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