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loadjob
Description
Loads events or results of a previously completed search job. The artifacts to load are identified either by the search job id or a scheduled search name and the time range of the current search. If a savedsearch name is provided and multiple artifacts are found within that range the latest artifacts are loaded.
A search head cluster can run the loadjob command only on scheduled saved searches. A search head cluster runs searches on results or artifacts that the search head cluster replicates. You cannot run the loadjob command on ad hoc or real-time searches. For more information on artifact replication, see "Search head clustering architecture" in the Distributed Search manual.
Syntax
| loadjob (<sid> | <savedsearch>) [<result-event>] [<delegate>] [<artifact_offset>] [<ignore_running>]
Required arguments
- sid
- Syntax: <string>
- Description: The search ID of the job whose artifacts need to be loaded, for example:
1233886270.2
- savedsearch
- Syntax: savedsearch="<user-string>:<app-string>:<search-name-string>"
- Description: The unique identifier of a saved search whose artifacts need to be loaded. A saved search is uniquely identified by the triplet {user, app, savedsearch name}, for example:
savedsearch="admin:search:my Saved Search"There is no method to specify a wildcard or match-all behavior. All portions of the triplet must be provided.
Optional arguments
- result-event
- Syntax: events=<bool>
- Description:
events=trueloads events, whileevents=falseloads results. - Defaults: false
- delegate
- Syntax: job_delegate=<string>
- Description: When specifying a savedsearch, this option selects jobs that were started by the given user. Scheduled jobs will be run by the delegate "scheduler". Dashboard-embedded searches will be run in accordance with the savedsearch's dispatchAs parameter (typically the owner of the search).
- Defaults: scheduler
- artifact_offset
- Syntax: artifact_offset=<int>
- Description: Selects a search artifact other than the most recent matching one. For example, if
artifact_offset=1, the second most recent artifact will be used. Ifartifact_offset=2, the third most recent artifact will be used. Ifartifact_offset=0, selects the most recent. A value that selects past all available artifacts will result in an error. - Default: 0
- ignore_running
- Syntax: ignore_running=<bool>
- Description: Skip over artifacts whose search is still running.
- Default: true
Usage
The loadjob command is a generating command and should be the first command in the search. Generating commands use a leading pipe character.
The loadjob command can be used for a variety of purposes, but one of the most useful is to run a fairly expensive search that calculates statistics. You can use loadjob searches to display those statistics for further aggregation, categorization, field selection and other manipulations for charting and display.
After a search job has completed and the results are cached, you can use this command to access or load the results.
Examples
Example 1: Loads the results of the latest scheduled execution of savedsearch MySavedSearch in the 'search' application owned by admin
| loadjob savedsearch="admin:search:MySavedSearch"
Example 2: Loads the events that were generated by the search job with id=1233886270.2
| loadjob 1233886270.2 events=true
See also
Answers
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Comments
Thanks for the suggestion Woodcock.
I have added it to the "See also" section.
You should add "savedsearch" to the "See also" section.
Users should be warned that there is a limit to the events pulled in as per this Q&A:
https://answers.splunk.com/answers/458901/is-there-a-limit-when-using-loadjob.html