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Implementing Splunk (Update)

You're reading from  Implementing Splunk (Update)

Product type Book
Published in Jul 2015
Publisher
ISBN-13 9781784391607
Pages 506 pages
Edition 1st Edition
Languages

Table of Contents (20) Chapters

Implementing Splunk Second Edition
Credits
About the Authors
About the Reviewers
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Preface
1. The Splunk Interface 2. Understanding Search 3. Tables, Charts, and Fields 4. Data Models and Pivots 5. Simple XML Dashboards 6. Advanced Search Examples 7. Extending Search 8. Working with Apps 9. Building Advanced Dashboards 10. Summary Indexes and CSV Files 11. Configuring Splunk 12. Advanced Deployments 13. Extending Splunk Index

Using subsearches to find loosely related events


The number of use cases for subsearches in the real world might be small, but for those situations where they can be applied, subsearches can be a magic bullet. Let's look at an example and then talk about some rules.

Subsearch

Let's start with these events:

2015-02-10 12:59:59 msgid=704783 from=tuck@companyx.com to=taylor@VENDOR1.com
2015-02-10 12:59:59 msgid=171755 from=steve@companyx.com to=lou@VENDOR1.com
2015-02-10 12:59:59 msgid=668955 from=lou@companyx.com to=steve@Vendor2.com
2015-02-10 12:59:59 msgid=001404 from=mary@companyx.com to=richard@Vendor2.com
2015-02-10 12:59:59 msgid=284794 from=ronnie@companyx.com to=toto@Vendor2.com
2015-02-10 12:59:59 msgid=362127 from=nanette@companyx.com to=sam@Vendor2.com
2015-02-10 12:59:59 msgid=571419 from=paige@companyx.com to=ronnie@g&r.com

From these events, let's find out who mary has sent messages to. In these events, we see that the from and to values are in different entries. We could use...

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