Utilizing tstats for Page Views within Apache Web Logs

Here's a Splunk query to show a timechart of page views from a website running on Apache. Due to the search utilizing tstats, the query will return results incredibly fast over a very LONG period of time if desired. Change the index to reflect yours, as well as the span to reflect a span you wish to see.

|tstats count as hits where index=* sourcetype="access_combined" by _time
| timechart span=1month sum(hits) as Views

Screenshot: Here's the same thing but using the built in Splunk predict command

|tstats count as hits where index=* sourcetype="access_combined" by _time
| timechart span=1month sum(hits) as Views
| predict Views

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