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I have a search that I'm using to populate some charts in a dashboard. The search is checking a log and charting the top 20 users who have used the most disk space in their home directories. It works great for a 24 hour period...However I can't seem to get it to work for longer periods such as 7 days or more. What I'd like to do is that if you choose 7 days, it would display the top 20 users who were using the most space after pretty much calculating space usage for 7 days per user. You'd be able to see the user's space usage over a 7 day period. This would allow you to see when a spike may have occurred that caused a disk issue. The search I have right now is :
This search is used to create an area chart on a dashboard. I have a time range picker to change the time from 24 hours to 7 days, but when I do the results are not what I would like. Nothing happens for the most part. Here's my dashboard code:
I've been looking into timechart as I believe I have to use this command to make this happen. I also tried doing a timechart sum of Space by Username but the results didn't look right. Any ideas? |
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I think the first issue here is that you hardcoded the timerange into the search. try removing the earliest and latest. That should fix your timerange dropdown issue. Try the following search host="ynfs1" sourcetype=userdiskusage | rex field=_raw "(?<space>[d]+)s*/home/(?<username>S+)" max_match=1000 | search NOT UserName="shares" | bucket _time span=1d | eval day=strftime(day,"%Y-%m-%d") | chart sum(Space) over day by UserName You should be able to chart this. If you want to have a little more granularity into space usage, change the span to 1h or 1m or whatever you want.
(07 Dec '11, 12:35)
Joetron
it just says no results found and the charts are empty.
(07 Dec '11, 13:06)
gnovak
let me try running it manually
(07 Dec '11, 13:06)
gnovak
my bad run this: host="ynfs1" sourcetype=userdiskusage | rex field=_raw "(?<space>[d]+)s*/home/(?<username>S+)" max_match=1000 | search NOT UserName="shares" | bucket _time span=1d as day | eval day=strftime(day,"%Y-%m-%d") | chart sum(Space) over day by UserName I forgot to add the "as day" after bucket _time span=1d It should work now.
(07 Dec '11, 13:18)
Joetron
still not working. what's the eval day=strftime
(07 Dec '11, 13:28)
gnovak
ah it looks like your rex field extraction is all lowercase. try this: host="ynfs1" sourcetype=userdiskusage | rex field=_raw "(?<space>[d]+)s*/home/(?<username>S+)" max_match=1000 | search NOT UserName="shares" | bucket _time span=1d as day | eval day=strftime(day,"%Y-%m-%d") | chart sum(space) over day by userame strftime: This function takes an epochtime value, X, as the first argument and renders it as a string using the format specified by Y.
(07 Dec '11, 13:33)
Joetron
The search stops producing any results as soon as I do the chart command. I tried using timechart but didn't seem to get it right. Also the only results I have is a list of _time and that's it.
(07 Dec '11, 13:34)
gnovak
also i left the hardcoded time range in the search just to see if the charts did work. my bad
(07 Dec '11, 13:34)
gnovak
it's not a case issue. that didn't work
(07 Dec '11, 13:38)
gnovak
Also what about the | head 20? How is this search going to show me the top 20 disk hogs over a period of time?
(07 Dec '11, 13:41)
gnovak
even this doesn't work. As soon as I put the | chart command nothing happens. host="ynfs1" sourcetype=userdiskusage | rex field=_raw "(?<space>[d]+)s*/home/(?<username>S+)" max_match=1000 | search NOT UserName="shares" | bucket _time span=1d as day | eval day=strftime(day,"%Y-%m-%d") | head 20 | chart sum(Space) by UserName
(07 Dec '11, 13:42)
gnovak
I'm going to look at the Time Based Charting Tools in UI examples for some hints. ugh!
(07 Dec '11, 14:01)
gnovak
what is a typical result for your space field look like?
(07 Dec '11, 14:08)
Joetron
UserName Space 1 bruce 43236824 2 fhu 41706896 3 lfan 39659892 4 hzhou 32397800 5 gsp 29841020 6 lyuan 29492256 7 mkarimi 27565896 8 jfu 25898072 9 jpfletch 25440672 10 mselvi 25278628
(07 Dec '11, 14:12)
gnovak
looks like this using the original search i posted.
(07 Dec '11, 14:12)
gnovak
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Does that produce anything when typed in exactly? yep i got stuff
(07 Dec '11, 14:22)
gnovak
let me try something
(07 Dec '11, 14:22)
gnovak
this produces results host="ynfs1" sourcetype=userdiskusage earliest=-1d@d latest=-0d@d | rex field=_raw "(?<space>[d]+)s*/home/(?<username>S+)" max_match=1000 | search NOT UserName="shares" | bucket _time span=1d as day | eval day=strftime(day,"%Y-%m-%d") | chart sum(Space) over UserName | sort -Space
(07 Dec '11, 14:27)
gnovak
however this is not showing me the top 20 in the list. host="ynfs1" sourcetype=userdiskusage earliest=-1d@d latest=-0d@d | rex field=_raw "(?<space>[d]+)s*/home/(?<username>S+)" max_match=1000 | search NOT UserName="shares" | bucket _time span=1d as day | eval day=strftime(day,"%Y-%m-%d") | chart sum(Space) over UserName | sort -Space | head 20
(07 Dec '11, 14:28)
gnovak
For my use case i don't use the sort command, my users prefer to sort the results themselves by clicking the sort buttons under the day columns.
(07 Dec '11, 14:34)
Joetron
well they want the top 20 based on their space consumption. So i said to sort the list and then show me the first 20 in the list.
(07 Dec '11, 14:39)
gnovak
I'm looking at the advanced_intro2 in the UI examples and it's got pretty much the same thing. :/
(07 Dec '11, 14:41)
gnovak
at this point i'm thinking the graph should have the time at the bottom, the space on the left (which i might convert to mb eventually) and for the legend have the top 10 or 20 users using the most disk space over time identified by colors
(07 Dec '11, 15:08)
gnovak
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