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Search all events between start/stop event

huaraz
Explorer

Hi

I have logfiles where I have a start event and a stop event and I would like to search for all events between these two events. The start and stop event can repeat multiple times. Is that possible ? It would allow me to create a virtual session from start to stop.

Thank you
Markus

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acdevlin
Communicator

I think you should use the transaction command: http://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/latest/SearchReference/Transaction

With the "startswith" and "endswith" options, you should be able to do what you want.

| transaction startswith="startEvent" endswith="endEvent" 

This should take any events between a starting event and an ending event, then group them together into transactions. I did something similar on my end recently to simulate user sessions on an internal server; transaction is a very useful command for this purpose!

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acdevlin
Communicator

I think you should use the transaction command: http://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/latest/SearchReference/Transaction

With the "startswith" and "endswith" options, you should be able to do what you want.

| transaction startswith="startEvent" endswith="endEvent" 

This should take any events between a starting event and an ending event, then group them together into transactions. I did something similar on my end recently to simulate user sessions on an internal server; transaction is a very useful command for this purpose!

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MarioM
Motivator

did you try the Transaction Command with startswith endswith options?

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