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Count unique IP's in 1 minute span over 1 hour or more.

jevenson
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This may be confusing, so I'll try to explain it as best as I can. I've got a search that looks for servers that get marked down by the load balancer in a 1 minute time frame, and de-duplicates the IP's. I am then alerted if the number of IP's is greater than a certain number. My search is as follows:

sourcetype=syslog service down | dedup HostIP

This search works great over the realtime 1 minute rolling window. What I'd like to do though is search back historically and see when there were 3 or more unique HostIPs in a 1 minute window.

I tried searching with something like this:

sourcetype=syslog service down | bucket _time span=1m | stats count by _time

And that sort of works, but I can't get the dedup to work for each 1 minute interval, instead it dedup's the entire time range, which isn't what I want.

Any ideas?

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Ayn
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Couldn't you just use dc instead of count in your stats command?

sourcetype=syslog service down | bucket _time span=1m | stats dc(HostIP) by _time 

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Ayn
Legend

Couldn't you just use dc instead of count in your stats command?

sourcetype=syslog service down | bucket _time span=1m | stats dc(HostIP) by _time 
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