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Calculate how many IPs changed since last week

Regengott
New Member

I have a bunch of log files from a honeypot. In this logfiles, I have IP-Adresses which appear almost every day and some of them change. Now I'd like to see on a per week basis how many new IPs dropping in the pot.

Just to make my analysis problem clear

IPs in week 1

1.2.3.4

2.3.4.5

3.4.5.6

IPs in week 2

1.2.3.4

2.3.4.5

3.4.5.6

9.9.9.9

The result would be "1 IP added since last week"

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bmunson_splunk
Splunk Employee
Splunk Employee

You need to do a subsearch and use the boolean NOT to exclude those results.

source=mylogs src_ip=* NOT [ search earliest=-14d@d latest=-7d@d  source=mylogs | stats count by src_ip | fields src_ip ] | stats dc(src_ip) as "New IP's this week"

If you are regularly doing this and have a lot of data, you might want to schedule the subsearch to speed this up.

edited to add the command "search" above and modify output

Regengott
New Member

/me = newbie 🙂 Thx - now I got a result, I need to interpret it, wether it is what I want

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okrabbe_splunk
Splunk Employee
Splunk Employee

he just forgot to put the search command. Add the word search before earliest. ie:
source=mylogs src_ip=* NOT [ search earliest=-14d@d latest=-7d@d .....

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Regengott
New Member

Thx for quick response, but unfortunately I got an error "Unknown search command 'earliest'". Perhaps I should have mentioned I used the free version 5.0.3?

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linu1988
Champion

use join to see the difference

Index=blah earliest=-1w@W|stats count as LastCount|join host[Index=blah earliest=-0w@W|stats count as Latest]|table host,LastCount,Latest|eval Difference=Latest-LastCount

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