{"id":27153,"date":"2020-12-18T12:52:19","date_gmt":"2020-12-18T12:52:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/?p=27153"},"modified":"2020-12-18T12:52:19","modified_gmt":"2020-12-18T12:52:19","slug":"answer-by-warren-for-splunk-equivalent-to-chained-greps-for-searching-within-a-search","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/?p=27153","title":{"rendered":"Answer by warren for Splunk equivalent to chained greps for searching within a search"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Depending on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.splunk.com\/en_us\/resources\/search-processing-language.html\" rel=\"nofollow noreferrer\">your use case<\/a>, you either do something like this:<\/p>\n<pre><code>index=ndx sourcetype=srctp fieldA=something fieldB=pattern fieldC=*\n<\/code><\/pre>\n<p>Or you might end up <a href=\"https:\/\/docs.splunk.com\/Documentation\/Splunk\/latest\/SearchReference\/rex\" rel=\"nofollow noreferrer\">doing this<\/a>:<\/p>\n<pre><code>index=ndx sourcetype=srctp &quot;some literal text&quot;\n| rex field=_raw &quot;a pattern of stuff (?&lt;fieldtoextract&gt;regex-goes-here)&quot;\n<\/code><\/pre>\n<p>Or <a href=\"https:\/\/docs.splunk.com\/Documentation\/Splunk\/latest\/SearchReference\/stats\" rel=\"nofollow noreferrer\">possibly this<\/a>:<\/p>\n<pre><code>index=ndx sourcetype=srctp fieldA=*\n| stats values(fieldB) by fieldA\n| where mvcount(fieldB)&gt;3 AND match(fieldA,&quot;something&quot;)\n<\/code><\/pre>\n<p>Or maybe something else entirely.<\/p>\n<p>If you have sample data, we can help craft some more-specific SPL for you &#8211; but there are many <em>many<\/em> <em><strong>many<\/strong><\/em> ways to &quot;search within a search&quot; in Splunk.<\/p>\n<p>from User warren &#8211; Stack Overflow https:\/\/stackoverflow.com\/questions\/65355904\/splunk-equivalent-to-chained-greps-for-searching-within-a-search\/65357400#65357400<br \/>\nvia <a href=\"https:\/\/ifttt.com\/?ref=da&#038;site=wordpress\">IFTTT<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Depending on your use case, you either do something like this: index=ndx sourcetype=srctp fieldA=something fieldB=pattern fieldC=* Or you might end up doing this: index=ndx sourcetype=srctp &quot;some literal text&quot; | rex field=_raw &quot;a pattern of stuff (?&lt;fieldtoextract&gt;regex-goes-here)&quot; Or possibly this: index=ndx sourcetype=srctp fieldA=* | stats values(fieldB) by fieldA | where mvcount(fieldB)&gt;3 AND match(fieldA,&quot;something&quot;) Or maybe something &hellip;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/?p=27153\" class=\"more-link pen_button pen_element_default pen_icon_arrow_double\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Answer by warren for Splunk equivalent to chained greps for searching within a search<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[991],"keyring_services":[],"class_list":["post-27153","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blih","tag-stackexchange"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27153","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=27153"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27153\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27154,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27153\/revisions\/27154"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27153"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27153"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27153"},{"taxonomy":"keyring_services","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fkeyring_services&post=27153"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}