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total concurrent searches

d646800
Explorer

can anyone let me know how to find the total concurrent searches in splunk for example in the last few days etc and the details of the search

i was doing this
index=_internal source=*metrics.log group="search_concurrency" host=A | timechart span=1m sum(active_hist_searches) as concurrent_searches by host

but i cannot see the type of searches or the search string etc in it. is there a way to find it out

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d646800
Explorer

thanks for the reply, I cannot seem to see sourcetype="searches" though i can see the sourcetype="scheduler".

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chimbudp
Contributor

You could probably accomplish your goal, using Splunk internal information. The running jobs are normally tracked by Splunk as follows:

Saved Searches: index="_internal" sourcetype="scheduler" earliest=02/05/2011:12:20:00 latest=02/05/2011:12:25:00

Manual Searches: index="_internal" sourcetype="searches" earliest=02/05/2011:12:20:00 latest=02/05/2011:12:35:00

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