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event count, per user, per hour
So i'm attempting to count a specific event type, per user, per hour. I only want the tope ten users, and I thought the 'top' command would do it, but I'm hitting a snag. The top command doesn't output any data at all.
I'm looking for this data to output in a table format with the fields time,user,count.
I attempted to use the following search query:
host=< myhost > eventtype=< my event type > | timechart span=1h count by user useother=false
Thank you!!
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I think the issue is the output format of the table using time chart. If you manually bucket I think you will get a better result.
Try this:
host=< myhost > eventtype=< my event type > | bucket _time span=1h | stats count by _time,user | sort - count | head
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Yeah you could do a subsearch and use that on the initial search. Something like below but you may need to play with it a bit.
host=< myhost > eventtype=< my event type > [ search host=< myhost > eventtype=< my event type > | top user | table user] | bucket _time span=1h | stats count by _time,user | sort - count | head
http://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Storm/Storm/User/Useasubsearch
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bucketing is exactly what I was looking for as far as the count for the time span! Thank you!
This gives the most recent offenders/instances, though I am looking for information on only the top ten offenders.
It's almost like I would need to run a search first to find the top ten offenders, then break out each user into a '_time" bucket and show their stats per hour individually? I'm guessing here 😃
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try this...
host=< myhost > eventtype=< my event type > | timechart span=1h limit=10 useother=f count by user
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Almost! The result set I get now is the ten (limit=10) most recent offenders.
I thought the 'top' command was the way to go, but I can't seem to get the search to roll it's results to the top command and have it output the data.
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It looks like I'm getting the latest 20 users, which are not the top offenders I am looking for.
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So, what was the result of the query you attempted?
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