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cluster

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cluster

Synopsis

Clusters similar events together.

Syntax

cluster [slc-option]*

Arguments

slc-option
Syntax:
Description:

Description

Fast and simple clustering method designed to operate on raw event text (_raw field). With default options, a single representative event is retained for each cluster.

Examples

Example 1: Cluster events together, sort them by their "cluster_count" values, and then return the 20 largest clusters (in data size).

... | cluster t=0.9 showcount=true | sort - cluster_count | head 20

Example 2: Cluster syslog events together.

sourcetype=syslog | cluster


See also

anomalies, anomalousvalue, cluster, kmeans, outlier

This documentation applies to the following versions of Splunk: 4.0 , 4.0.1 , 4.0.2 , 4.0.3 , 4.0.4 , 4.0.5 , 4.0.6 , 4.0.7 , 4.0.8 , 4.0.9 , 4.0.10 , 4.0.11 View the Article History for its revisions.


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