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Advanced Splunk

You're reading from   Advanced Splunk Master the art of getting the maximum out of your machine data using Splunk

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jun 2016
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ISBN-13 9781785884351
Length 348 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Ashish Kumar Tulsiram Yadav Ashish Kumar Tulsiram Yadav
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Preface 1. What's New in Splunk 6.3? FREE CHAPTER 2. Developing an Application on Splunk 3. On-boarding Data in Splunk 4. Data Analytics 5. Advanced Data Analytics 6. Visualization 7. Advanced Visualization 8. Dashboard Customization 9. Advanced Dashboard Customization 10. Tweaking Splunk 11. Enterprise Integration with Splunk 12. What Next? Splunk 6.4 Index

Subsearch


The search that is enclosed in a square bracket and whose result is passed as a parameter value to the search is called a subsearch. Basically, subsearches are used when the search requires some input that cannot be directly specified or that keeps on changing. Hence, another search query is written, and the result is passed to the original search.

Let's assume a user wants to know the location and IP address of top three users who have failed the login attempt. Now, the top three users who are failing the login will keep on changing, so subsearches are used. The subsearch will show the top three users that will be passed to the original search. This search will result in the location and IP address of those three users.

You will learn in detail how the preceding scenarios can be solved using various subsearch commands.

The append command

The append command of the subsearch category, as the name suggests, is used to append the result of one search with another search result. The subsearch...

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