Displays sourcetypes being truncated on ingest, then on selection, shows the related _internal message & the an event that caused it to trigger. <form> <label>Data Issues</label> <description>Truncation, Date Parsing and Timestamp issues</description> <fieldset submitButton=”false”> <input type=”time” token=”field1″> <label></label> <default> <earliest>-24h@h</earliest> <latest>now</latest> </default> </input> </fieldset> <row> <panel> <title>Choose a problematic sourcetype</title> <table> <search> <query>index=_internal sourcetype=splunkd component=LineBreakingProcessor […]
Deployed application status
Created this dashboard to see when or if an application was deployed successfully. Close to splunkninja’s query, this will also show if the host in question also restarted to apply the new app. <form> <label>Deployed Applications</label> <fieldset submitButton=”false”> <input type=”checkbox” token=”loglevelpicker” searchWhenChanged=”true”> <label>Log Level</label> <choice value=”INFO”>INFO</choice> <choice value=”WARN*”>WARNING</choice> <choice value=”ERROR”>ERROR</choice> <default>INFO,WARN*,ERROR</default> <valuePrefix>log_level=</valuePrefix> <delimiter> OR […]
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. […]
Bucket Status Dashboard
Shows status of buckets per indexer host, when they rolled from warm to cold, and cold to frozen. Gives a timechart and table of each, as well as detailed bucket names per index & host. <form> <label>Bucket Status</label> <fieldset submitButton=”false”> <input type=”time” token=”field1″> <label></label> <default> <earliest>-24h@h</earliest> <latest>now</latest> </default> </input> <input type=”multiselect” token=”hostpicker” searchWhenChanged=”true”> <label>Which Host</label> […]
Apps Deployed from Deployment Server
Want to show what apps have been deployed to forwarders from a deployment server (DS)? Try this Splunk Search: index=_internal sourcetype=splunkd component=DeployedApplication installing | stats count latest(_time) AS latest_time by host app | convert ctime(latest_time)
List of Forwarders that are Deployment Clients
Need a list of Forwarders that are talking to a Deployment Server? Try this: index=_internal sourcetype=splunkd component=DC* Handshake | stats count by host Additional REST query (performed on the DS) will return desired results (Thanks to Lyx for pointing this out!): | rest /services/deployment/server/clients splunk_server=local | table hostname applications.*.serverclasses | untable hostname, applications, serverclass | […]
Host not sending logs for x days
This Splunk Query will show hosts that stopped sending logs for at least 48 hours. You’ll want to change the time range to be relevant to your environment, and you may need to tweak the 48 hour range to something that is more appropriate for your environment. | tstats count as countAtToday latest(_time) as lastTime […]
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
Dashboard and App views by user
This Splunk query / search shows historical access to dashboards and apps on a local splunk server. index=_internal sourcetype=splunk_web_access host=* user=* | rex field=uri_path “.*/(?<title>[^/]*)$” | join title [| rest /servicesNS/-/-/data/ui/views splunk_server=* | search isDashboard=1 isVisible=1 | rename eai:acl.app as app | fields title app ] | rename title as dashboard | stats count by […]
Show how much disk space is used by _internal
The following Splunk query will return disk space used by the _internal index. index=_internal source=*license_usage.log type=Usage | eval gb=b/1024/1024/1024 | timechart span=1d sum(gb) as GB by host useother=false | untable _time host gb | top limit=1 host | join time [ search index=_internal source=*license_usage.log type=Usage | eval gb=b/1024/1024/1024 | timechart span=1d sum(gb) as GB by […]
Find queues that are nearly full
Easily find Splunk Instances (both forwarders and full installs) that have queues that are over 80% full! index=_internal group=queue | eval percfull=((current_size_kb/max_size_kb)*100) | search percfull>80 | dedup host, name | table _time host name current_size_kb max_size_kb
Events Sent to Null Que – Internal Logs
This will show events that have been sent to the null que within the splunk internal logs. index=_internal component=metrics processor=nullqueue group=pipeline sourcetype=splunkd | table _time log_level name processor cpu_seconds executes, cumulative_hits
REST Call for Memory & CPU usage on Splunk Servers
This Splunk search will show you use and available CPU and Memory statistics. Depending on your environment you may see multiple Splunk servers: | rest /services/server/status/resource-usage/hostwide | eval cpu_count = if(isnull(cpu_count), “N/A”, cpu_count) | eval cpu_usage = cpu_system_pct + cpu_user_pct | eval mem_used_pct = round(mem_used / mem * 100 , 2) | eval mem_used = […]
REST Call for a list of Lookup Files
Use this splunk search to get a list of all lookup files: | rest /services/data/transforms/lookups | table eai:acl.app eai:appName filename title fields_list updated id
REST Call for Splunk Server Role Status
This REST Splunk search returns the status of roles on each Splunk server in your environment. | rest /services/server/introspection | table title splunk_server status updated
Splunk Objects With Permissions Granted to Non-existent Roles
Useful search to show a bit of detail on roles and user permissions. | rest /servicesNS/-/-/admin/directory count=0 splunk_server=local | fields eai:acl.app, eai:acl.owner, eai:acl.perms.*, eai:acl.sharing, eai:location, title | eval perms=mvappend(‘eai:acl.perms.read’,’eai:acl.perms.write’) | fields – eai:acl.perms.* | mvexpand perms | where perms!=”*” AND NOT [ | rest /servicesNS/-/-/authorization/roles count=0 splunk_server=local | fields title | rename title as perms […]
Every index explicitly granted to a role
Self explanatory, maps roles to indexes. Useful if you have a lot of indexes! | rest /servicesNS/-/-/authorization/roles count=0 splunk_server=local | fields title,srchIndexesAllowed | rename srchIndexesAllowed as index title as role | mvexpand index | where NOT match(index,”.*\*.*”) I found this at: https://gist.github.com/acharlieh/3254a7ab13297c760376 Credit goes to acharlieh!
Average Splunk Web requests by hour
This query is pretty awesome! It helped enlighten us to exactly when our splunk infrastructure is being hit with users index=_internal sourcetype=splunk_web_access [ rest / splunk_server=local | fields splunk_server | rename splunk_server as host ] | bin _time span=1d | stats count by date_hour _time | appendpipe [ fields _time | dedup _time | eval […]
All indexes not explicitly granted to a role
| rest /servicesNS/-/-/data/indexes count=0 | stats max(isInternal) as internal, max(disabled) as disabled, max(isReadOnly) as readonly by title | fillnull | where internal=0 AND disabled=0 AND readonly=0 | fields title | rename title as index | join index type=left [ rest /servicesNS/-/-/authorization/roles count=0 splunk_server=local | fields title,srchIndexesAllowed | rename srchIndexesAllowed as index title as role | […]
List of Sourcetypes Sent by Forwarder
The following Splunk search will show a list of sourcetypes (or perhaps sources I need to confirm) being sent by each Forwarder: index=”_internal” |where host!=splunk_server | stats values(series) as Sourcetypes by host
