Identify all saved searches that use a specific keyword

Description: This Splunk search searches all your saved searches for a specific keyword. Handy if you need to identify all searches that use a specific index, sourcetype or other keyword.   Query: |rest /servicesNS/-/-/saved/searches add_orphan_field=yes count=0 | rename eai:acl.app AS app | rename eai:acl.app AS app | search qualifiedSearch=*keyword* | table title, cron_schedule, author, app, […]

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Get Fields Defined for Multiple KVStore Collections

Description: This query gets all collection titles in your instance, then runs a map function on them to get their fields from a single query. The reason this is necessary is because the API returns collection fields as columns, not values, and if you just table all fields for multiple collections, you’ll end up with […]

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List the size of lookup files with an SPL search.

| rest splunk_server=local /services/data/lookup-table-files/ | rename eai:acl.app as app | table app title | search NOT title IN (*.kmz) | map maxsearches=990 search=”| inputlookup $title$ | eval size=0 | foreach * [ eval size=size+coalesce(len(‘<<FIELD>>’),0), app=\”$app$\”, title=$title$ | fields app title size]” | stats sum(size) by app title | sort – sum(size)

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Reports Owned by Admin Users and Writable by Others

  | rest /servicesNS/-/-/saved/searches splunk_server=local | where [|rest /services/authentication/users splunk_server=local | search roles=”admin” |fields title | rename title as author] OR author=”nobody” | rename title AS savedsearch_name, eai:acl.app as app, eai:acl.perms.write as write_roles | table author write_roles splunk_server app savedsearch_name splunk_server | mvexpand write_roles | where NOT write_roles IN(“”,”admin”) | mvcombine write_roles | eval search_name_for_link=savedsearch_name […]

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Splunk Apps added to an instance

| rest /services/deployment/server/clients splunk_server=local | table hostname applications*.stateOnClient | untable hostname applications value | eval applications=replace(applications,”applications\.(\w+)\.stateOnClient”,”\1″) | stats values(applications) as applications by hostname

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REST API: Table all Splunk User Email Addresses

The following simple Splunk query will put all Splunk User accounts with an email address into a panel for copy and paste purposes (such as copying all email addresses to send in an email). I’ve added a semi colon delimiter in order to literally be copy and paste into an application such as Microsoft Outlook. […]

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List Reports and Wrap the text

|rest /servicesNS/-/-/saved/searches |table search title description alert_type “alert.expires” “alert.suppress” “alert.suppress.fields” |search alert_type=”always” |fillnull value=0 triggered_alert_count |sort “triggered_alert_count” desc |rex max_match=100 field=”search” “(?<split__regex>.{0,100}(?:\s|$)|.{100})” | rename split__regex as search

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Get KV Store Metrics

This Splunk REST query will return KV Store Metrics: | rest /services/server/introspection/kvstore/collectionstats | mvexpand data | spath input=data | rex field=ns “(?<App>.*)\.(?<Collection>.*)” | eval dbsize=round(size/1024/1024, 2) | eval indexsize=round(totalIndexSize/1024/1024, 2) | stats first(count) AS “Number of Objects” first(nindexes) AS Accelerations first(indexsize) AS “Acceleration Size (MB)” first(dbsize) AS “Collection Size (MB)” by App, Collection

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Number of Hosts Associated with a Serverclass

The following query will list the number of hosts associated with all serverclasses on your Splunk Deployment server. This query should be run on your Deployment Server. | rest /services/deployment/server/clients splunk_server=local | table hostname applications.*.serverclasses | untable hostname applications | rex field=applications “applications\.(?<apps>.+)\.serverclasses” | stats dc(hostname) as hostname by apps

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List All Splunk Users & Associated Roles

The following Splunk query will show a table of all users and their roles: | rest /services/authentication/users | stats values(roles) as Roles by user *Admin Notes* I’ve found the following query to work better in my environment: | rest /services/authentication/users | stats values(roles) as Roles by title

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List of all enabled correlation rules that generate a notable

| rest splunk_server=local count=0 /services/saved/searches | search action.notable=”1″ is_scheduled=”1″ disabled=”0″     `comment(“PERFORM A REST COMMAND ON SAVED SEARCHES WHERE THE SEARCH GENERATES A NOTABLE, IS SCHEDULED AND IS NOT DISABLED”)` | table title action.notable.param.security_domain description search cron_schedule actions action.email.to action.notable.param.severity alert.suppress.fields alert.suppress.period action.notable.param.next_steps action.notable.param.rule_description action.risk.param._risk_score      `comment(“TABLE FIELDS”)`

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Indexes in Splunk

For those who have more than a few indexes (we’ve got 27 non-administrative indexes) I wrote this search so people could figure-out what we have and what it is used for. The search requires that there be a file called indexdescriptions.csv located in $SPLUNK_HOME/etc/apps/search/lookups (or “Program Files”\splunk\etc\apps\search\lookups\indexdescriptions.csv ). That file should have “index,description” on the […]

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Retention Period in days per index

This query will give you a table of all indexes and their respective retention period in days: | rest splunk_server=* /services/data/indexes | join type=outer title [ | rest splunk_server=* /services/data/indexes-extended ] | eval retentionInDays=frozenTimePeriodInSecs/86400 | table title retentionInDays

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Show Splunk User to Role mapping

The following Splunk REST query shows all roles, number of  capabilities, and landing app for each user. | rest /services/authentication/users | eval name=coalesce(realname, title) | stats values(roles) as Role first(defaultApp) as “Landing App” count(capabilities) as “Number of Capabilities” by name

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