Finding the most used web browsers

Users visiting our website use a variety of devices and web browsers. By analyzing the web access logs, we can understand which browsers are the most popular and therefore which browsers our site must support at the least. We can also use this same information to help identify the types of devices that people are using.

In this recipe, we will write a Splunk search to find the most used web browsers over a given period of time. We will then make use of both the eval and replace commands to clean up the data a bit.

Getting ready

To step through this recipe, you will need a running Splunk Enterprise server with the sample data loaded from Chapter 1, Play Time - Getting Data In. You should be familiar with the Splunk search bar and the time range picker to the right of it.

How to do it...

Follow these steps to search for the most used web browsers:

1. Log in to your Splunk server.
2. Select the Search & Reporting application.
3. Ensure that the time range picker is set...