https://community.splunk.com/t5/Dashboards-Visualizations/Dashboard-SingleValue-Question-newbie-question/m-p/64225#M3359 <P>I'm trying to count the number of disconnects from my server as a sum and get it to display on the dashboard as a single number (eventually I'm going to want to get this single number into the ruby sdk)<BR /> I'm running the following query:<BR /> source="/home/mc/vanilla2/server.log" disconnect disconnect.quitting | stats count by eventtype</P> <P>However, when I put this as a single value, it just says "DisconnectEvent" (Which is the name of the eventtype that is the number of disconnects)</P> <P>Running that query correctly shows a single point on the graph, but I don't know how to extract that value now. </P> Fri, 14 Jun 2013 13:13:06 GMT Loscil 2013-06-14T13:13:06Z https://community.splunk.com/t5/Dashboards-Visualizations/Dashboard-SingleValue-Question-newbie-question/m-p/64225#M3359 <P>I'm trying to count the number of disconnects from my server as a sum and get it to display on the dashboard as a single number (eventually I'm going to want to get this single number into the ruby sdk)<BR /> I'm running the following query:<BR /> source="/home/mc/vanilla2/server.log" disconnect disconnect.quitting | stats count by eventtype</P> <P>However, when I put this as a single value, it just says "DisconnectEvent" (Which is the name of the eventtype that is the number of disconnects)</P> <P>Running that query correctly shows a single point on the graph, but I don't know how to extract that value now. </P> Fri, 14 Jun 2013 13:13:06 GMT https://community.splunk.com/t5/Dashboards-Visualizations/Dashboard-SingleValue-Question-newbie-question/m-p/64225#M3359 Loscil 2013-06-14T13:13:06Z https://community.splunk.com/t5/Dashboards-Visualizations/Dashboard-SingleValue-Question-newbie-question/m-p/64226#M3360 <P>Try:</P> <PRE><CODE>source="/home/mc/vanilla2/server.log" disconnect disconnect.quitting | stats count as MyTotal </CODE></PRE> Fri, 14 Jun 2013 14:57:00 GMT https://community.splunk.com/t5/Dashboards-Visualizations/Dashboard-SingleValue-Question-newbie-question/m-p/64226#M3360 JSapienza 2013-06-14T14:57:00Z