Splunk

Training

https://www.splunk.com/en_us/training/free-courses/splunk-fundamentals-1.html

Search

Match Value (.*) after "want:" and turn it into a field (field_name)

 | rex field=_raw "some text before what we want:(?<field_name>.*)"  

Group results into 1 hour chunks

 | timechart span=1h count(field_name) by field_name 

Export RAW logs

host=<host_name> | table _raw | outputcsv rawdump.csv

Then download as csv

Transforming Commands

| top [field field2] limit=0 showperc=False countfield="Renamed something" 
| Rate [field field2] limit=0

useother=True -- use when limit!=0 so 'extras' go into a catchall bucket

Stats - all stats functions must be done together (in the same pipes)

• Count
• Dc (Distinct Count)
• Sum -- stats sum(price) as "Gross Sales" by product_name
• Avg, Min, Max
• List -- stats list(Asset) as "stuff" by Employee
• Value - similar to list but unique.