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nested transactions?

mighdoll
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I'd like to determine the duration between a transaction and a later event in the log. You could think of it as a transaction containing a transaction... Is there a clever way to do this?

Here's a stylized example. I'd like to know the amount of time spent driving w/o seat belt. The log contains the following events. I want the duration between the pair (unfastenend,start) to end.

  • seat-belt-fastened
  • seat-belt-unfastened
  • start-driving
  • end-driving
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melting
Splunk Employee
Splunk Employee

This is doable with lookups. There is a good blog article about how to do this from Alex Raitz:
maintain state

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