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You can achieve this by using the sendemail command. Rather than setting email as an action, you can incorporate the sendemail command directly into your search query, configuring it with the necessary parameters. Example <yoursearch> | sendemail to=example@splunk.com server=mail.example.com subject="Here is an email from Splunk" message="This is an example message" sendresults=true inline=true format=raw sendpdf=true   ------ If you find this solution helpful, please consider accepting it and awarding karma points !! ... View more

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Yes, you can achieve this by using a Python script as a scripted input in Splunk. You can read the data using Python, perform the modifications as you described (decoding the JSON, updating the dictionary, and re-encoding it), and output the modified data. Here's how it works: Create a Python Script: Read the incoming data. Apply the necessary transformations. Print the modified JSON to standard output (stdout). Configure Scripted Input in Splunk: Go to Settings > Data Inputs > Scripts. Add a new scripted input and select your Python script. Set a cron schedule for when the script should run. The script will run at the configured intervals, fetch the data, apply your changes, and send the transformed data to Splunk for indexing. Important Consideration: The main limitation is that data ingestion will depend on the cron schedule of the scripted input, so real-time or very frequent data processing might not be achievable. Adjust the schedule as needed based on your data update frequency. ... View more

Hi, it should work, and it’s working fine on my end. Try upgrading your browser if you have any pending updates.   ------ If you find this solution helpful, please consider accepting it and awarding karma points !! ... View more

Try this one : <your_search>| rex field=Tags "avd:(?<avd>[^,]+),\s*dept:(?<dept>[^,]+),\s*cm-resource-parent:(?<cm_resource_parent>[^,]+),\s*manager:(?<manager>[^$]+)" ------ If you find this solution helpful, please consider accepting it and awarding karma points !!   ... View more

I hope you did the following configuration to connect search head with indexer. If not, then do it as mentioned below, else verify the configuration. Configure the Indexer as a Search Peer Log in to the Splunk web interface on your search head. Go to Settings > Distributed Search > Search Peers. Click Add New to add a new search peer (indexer). Enter the management port (usually 8089) and the hostname or IP address of the indexer. If required, enter the username and password of the indexer to establish the connection. Click Save to add the indexer as a search peer.   ------ If you find this solution helpful, please consider accepting it and awarding karma points !! ... View more

This YouTube video on Search Optimization in Splunk is highly useful https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U3A1zxag_lc ------ If you find this solution helpful, please consider accepting it and awarding karma points !!   ... View more

Try this : <your_search>|rex field=source "\/audit\/logs\/(?<environment>[^\/]*)\/(?<hostname>[^-]*)\-(?<component>[^-]*)\-(?<filename>.*$)" ------ If you find this solution helpful, please consider accepting it and awarding karma points !! ... View more

You can achieve this by creating Custom Notable Event Suppressions. Please refer to the link below for more details. https://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/ES/7.3.2/Admin/Customizenotables#Create_and_manage_notable_event_suppressions ------ If you find this solution helpful, please consider accepting it and awarding karma points !! ... View more

Check out this link; it might be helpful for you. https://community.splunk.com/t5/Getting-Data-In/Setting-up-HEC-HTTP-Event-Collector-in-a-indexer-cluster/m-p/560975/highlight/true#M92683 ... View more

Did you create any custom field extraction? If so, check if the field extraction's permissions are set to "global." It might currently be private to you, which could explain why only you're getting the correct results. ... View more

I hope this search query proves useful to you. index=federated:infosec_apg_share source=InternalLicenseUsage type=Usage idx=*_p* idx!=zscaler* st IN ([ search index=<your_index> | stats count by sourcetype | fields sourcetype ]) | stats sum(b) by st | eval GB = round('sum(b)'/1073741824,2) | fields st, GB   ------ If you find this solution helpful, please consider accepting it and awarding karma points !! ... View more

  In Splunk, hot buckets are where incoming data is actively written and indexed. These buckets hold the most recent data and are immediately searchable. Once a hot bucket reaches its size or time limit, it transitions into a warm bucket. Warm buckets store data that is no longer being written to but remains searchable. ------ If you find this solution helpful, please consider accepting it and awarding karma points !! ... View more

Splunk uses warm and cold buckets primarily for financial benefits and effective data separation. Warm buckets store recent data on fast, expensive storage to ensure quick access for critical searches, optimizing performance for frequently accessed information. In contrast, cold buckets move older, less critical data to slower, cheaper storage, reducing overall storage costs. This separation ensures that high-cost storage is used only for data that requires rapid retrieval, while long-term data is retained cost-effectively. By balancing data storage based on its importance and access frequency, Splunk helps organizations control expenses while maintaining efficient data management. ... View more

Key Reasons for Using Different Buckets in Splunk: Data Lifecycle Management: Splunk categorizes buckets to handle data at different stages of its lifecycle. As data ages, it moves through different types of buckets: Hot Buckets: Where the data is first written. These are actively being indexed. Warm Buckets: Once hot buckets are full, they move to warm buckets. These are still searchable but no longer being written to. Cold Buckets: As data ages, it moves to cold buckets. These contain older data and are stored on cheaper, slower storage, but are still searchable. Frozen Buckets: Data that is moved out of Splunk, often archived or deleted based on retention policies. Frozen data is not searchable in Splunk unless thawed (restored). This structure helps manage data efficiently and ensures that recent data is readily available while older data is archived or deleted based on retention policies. Performance Optimization: Splunk searches through recent (hot/warm) and historical (cold) data differently to optimize performance. By organizing data into different buckets, Splunk can prioritize newer data, which is searched more often, while minimizing resource usage on older data. This improves search performance because Splunk doesn’t need to scan all data equally. Efficient Resource Allocation: Storing data in different types of buckets allows for resource optimization. For example: Hot and Warm buckets typically reside on faster, more expensive storage (SSD or fast disks) to ensure quick access to recent data. Cold buckets are stored on slower, cheaper storage, conserving resources while still keeping older data searchable. Retention and Compliance: Organizations often have different retention requirements for data. By using bucket configurations, Splunk allows you to retain data based on the bucket type. For instance, you might keep hot/warm data for a shorter period, and cold data for longer. Frozen buckets can be used to archive data to long-term storage (or delete it) based on compliance requirements. Data Recovery and Index Integrity: If there’s an issue with the index or corruption, buckets help isolate and recover specific portions of the data without impacting the entire index. Splunk can selectively roll back or restore data from buckets, which is easier than dealing with a single monolithic structure. Search Granularity and Parallelism: Different buckets allow Splunk to parallelize searches more effectively. When a search is performed, Splunk can search through hot, warm, and cold buckets in parallel, improving the speed of search execution. Historical Data Archiving: Frozen buckets enable you to offload older, less frequently accessed data to external storage or archive systems, allowing Splunk to manage historical data cost-effectively without overwhelming the system with too much data. ... View more

You may find this link helpful: https://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/9.3.1/Admin/ChecktheintegrityofyourSplunksoftwarefiles ... View more

  Run the query for All Time to identify the oldest bucket in the specified index. (Just to get information) The fields start_days and end_days represent the time range of events contained within each bucket. Sort the buckets by end_days in descending order to find the oldest bucket in that index. For example, if the end_days value is 500 and you only want to retain 400 days of data, configure the following parameter in your index settings frozenTimePeriodInSecs = 34560000      #(Seconds equivalent to 400days) ------ If you find this solution helpful, please consider accepting it and awarding karma points !! ... View more

The following SPL will also provide the bucket age in days. Once you have this information, you can configure the frozenTimePeriodInSecs attribute to specify how long to retain data and when to move it out. Run the query again to verify if the data has been removed |dbinspect index=your_index|eval end_days=round((now()-endEpoch)/86400,0) |eval start_days=round((now()-startEpoch)/86400,0)|table start_days,end_days,*   ... View more

Hi @uagraw01 : The Splunk SPL command below might be helpful for you... |dbinspect index=your_index In Splunk, the dbinspect command is used to gather detailed metadata about the index buckets in a specified index or set of indexes. This command provides information about the state, size, and other characteristics of the index buckets, which can help with monitoring storage, troubleshooting indexing issues, and understanding how Splunk is managing the data on disk. Key Information Provided by dbinspect: Bucket ID: A unique identifier for each bucket. Index Name: The index to which the bucket belongs. Start and End Time: The time range of events contained within the bucket. Bucket State: The current state of the bucket, such as: hot: Currently being written to. warm: Closed and searchable. cold: Moved to colder storage. frozen: No longer searchable, either deleted or archived. thawed: Restored from archive (frozen) and searchable again. Size on Disk: The storage size of the bucket. Event Count: The number of events contained in the bucket. Size before Compression: The size of the bucket before compression. Example Use Cases: 1. Search for Buckets by State: To filter for buckets in a specific state (e.g., cold or warm buckets), you can modify the query like this: | dbinspect index=your_index | search state="warm" OR state="cold" | table bucketId, index, startEpoch, endEpoch, state, sizeOnDiskMB This query filters for buckets that are either in the warm or cold state and displays useful details such as the bucket ID, size, and time range 2. Analyze Bucket Sizes: You can use dbinspect to analyze how much storage each bucket is consuming and understand your disk usage: | dbinspect index=your_index | stats sum(sizeOnDiskMB) as totalSize by index This query calculates the total disk size used by the specified index. 3. Find Old Buckets: To find the oldest buckets in an index based on their time ranges: | dbinspect index=your_index | sort startEpoch | table bucketId, index, startEpoch, endEpoch, state, sizeOnDiskMB This helps to identify which buckets contain the oldest data and may be candidates for deletion based on your data retention policies. ------ If you find this solution helpful, please consider accepting it and awarding karma points !!     ... View more

@harishsplunk7  I hope this search will help you .. | rest /services/authentication/users splunk_server=local | table title, realname, last_successful_login | rename title AS username | addinfo | eval status=if(last_successful_login>info_min_time,"User logged in during the selected time range","User Not logged in during the selected time range") | convert ctime(*_login) ctime(*_time)|fields - *_time, info_sid ------ If you find this solution helpful, please consider accepting it and awarding karma points !!   ... View more

index=A sourcetype="Any" | eval Hostname=lower(Hostname) | table Hostname os device_type ```# Include os and device_type fields``` | dedup Hostname | append [ search index=B sourcetype="foo" | eval Hostname=lower(Reporting_Host) | table Hostname | dedup Hostname ] | stats values(os) as os values(device_type) as device_type count by Hostname | eval match=if(count=1, "missing", "ok") | table Hostname os device_type match ------ If you find this solution helpful, please consider accepting it and awarding karma points !!     ... View more