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how to show a table with fields values from multiple different sourcetypes having different fields

maniishpawar — Wed, 05 Jul 2017 18:30:24 GMT

Hi,

I have perfmon counter data which has two fields "value" & "countername"
and then I have IIS log data which gives me time_taken.

How can I calculate avg of all perfmon counters respectively and also avg time_taken and show all this in a single table which looks like

avg(value) MeasureName

18.0% Memory
592 TimeTaken

Re: how to show a table with fields values from multiple different sourcetypes having different fields

DalJeanis — Wed, 05 Jul 2017 19:18:19 GMT

your perfmon search for counter data  
| stats avg(value) as avgvalue by countername 
| rename COMMENT as "The above gets your counters."

| rename COMMENT as "The below adds your time taken."
| append 
    [ your IIS search for events with time_taken 
    | stats avg(time_taken) as avgvalue 
    | eval countername="TimeTaken"]

| rename COMMENT as "And now we rename to match your headings."
| table avgvalue countername
| rename countername as MeasureName 
| rename avgvalue as "avg(value)"

Re: how to show a table with fields values from multiple different sourcetypes having different fields

somesoni2 — Wed, 05 Jul 2017 19:21:45 GMT

Can you post your current search to calculate both separately?

Re: how to show a table with fields values from multiple different sourcetypes having different fields

maniishpawar — Thu, 06 Jul 2017 13:01:10 GMT

out of curiosity is there any other way apart from using append.
Also if we use append, is it an expensive search

Re: how to show a table with fields values from multiple different sourcetypes having different fields

somesoni2 — Thu, 06 Jul 2017 13:30:55 GMT

Try like this

(your base search for perfmon counter data) OR (your base search for IIS log data)
| eval MeasureName=coalesce(countername,"TimeTaken")
| eval value=coalesce(value,time_taken)
| stats avg(value) as Avg_Value by MeasureName

Re: how to show a table with fields values from multiple different sourcetypes having different fields

DalJeanis — Thu, 06 Jul 2017 13:41:48 GMT

In this case, the append isn't appreciably worse than the basic search, but somesoni2's answer is slightly more efficient and better general practice.

If you CAN write it without append, then you probably SHOULD.

Re: how to show a table with fields values from multiple different sourcetypes having different fields

maniishpawar — Thu, 06 Jul 2017 19:51:06 GMT

Thank you so much