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Implementing Splunk 7, Third Edition

You're reading from   Implementing Splunk 7, Third Edition Effective operational intelligence to transform machine-generated data into valuable business insight

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Product type Paperback
Published in Mar 2018
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781788836289
Length 576 pages
Edition 3rd Edition
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James D. Miller James D. Miller
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Preface 1. The Splunk Interface FREE CHAPTER 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 14. Machine Learning Toolkit

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 to whom mary has sent messages. In these events, we see that the from and to values are in different entries. We...

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