Did you check if splunk is automatically assigning the first field as the timestamp? try extending your search to "All Time" and see if you get more results.
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Have you tried using the transaction command on "field" and "user"? Ref: http://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/6.4.1/SearchReference/Transaction
The transaction command adds a duration field that you could use.
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Does the outputs.conf have this line
[indexAndForward]
index = false
Ref: http://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/latest/DistSearch/Forwardsearchheaddata
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From the docs at http://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/6.4.0/Knowledge/Configurebatchmodesearch#Configure_batch_mode_search_parallelization
You can enable and configure batch mode search parallelization with an additional set of limits.conf parameters. This is an indexer-side setting. It needs to be configured on all of your indexers, not your search head(s).
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I am not sure why you are deduping. Assuming that's what you want...try this:
index=someindex queryType="ts" filename=RECON OR filename=PNASC.HRBDT status=1| dedup filename | stats count by filename
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Have you checked which roles are being applied to the user. If any one of the roles has those capabilities, they would automatically be inherited.
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@somesoni2 provides a much better regex (unsurprisingly) and also that would work for any file extension. I will now go ahead and drown in my sorrow.
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You should try Field Extractionsin Splunk : http://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/6.2.0/Knowledge/ExtractfieldsinteractivelywithIFX
For the example, you could try something like this:
| rex field=source "(?<=\\\)(?[^\\\]+(?=.log).log)"
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From the documentation at http://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/6.3.3/Viz/DashboardPDFs
PDFs for dashboards with multiple panels in a row might generate with only a single panel per row.
Look under the "Limitations to PDF generation" heading.
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Have you followed the procedure listed here?
http://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/6.2.7/DistSearch/Connectclustersearchheadstosearchpeers
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Assuming the file is already indexed in Splunk, try this:
| rex field=_raw "Elapsed Time:\s(?<elapsed_time>[^ \n\r]+)"
(Note: there's a space before \n\r )
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I recently installed S.o.S on our clustered Splunk(6.2) instance. As per @bmacias84, I went ahead and configured DMC. It's really cool! Thanks for the tip.
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I have a similar setup (2 search heads in a cluster, 3 clustered indexers).It's the same process. Install the S.o.S app on the search heads using the deployer.
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