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 to Last 24 hours and type the following search into the Splunk search bar. Then, click on Search or hit Enter:

index=main sourcetype=access_combined | eval browser=useragent | replace *Firefox* with Firefox, *Chrome* with Chrome, *MSIE* with "Internet Explorer", *Version*Safari* with Safari, *Opera* with Opera in browser | top limit=5 useother=t browser

1. Splunk will return a tabulated list of the top five most used web browsers on our site, by count and percent age, as shown in the following screenshot:

1. Save this search by clicking on Save As and then on Report. Give the report a name of cp02_most_used_webbrowsers and click on Save. On the next screen, click on Continue Editing to return to the search.