topic Re: How to find the difference in count between stats and timechart command? in Dashboards & Visualizations

Seeing difference in count between stats and timechart command?

dtccsundar — Mon, 28 Nov 2022 05:36:46 GMT

Hi ,

I am facing difference in count between stats and timechart for same search and same filters

Stats cmd : Last 24 hours

comp	7126
error	37
Noncomp	146
NonRep	54
Total	7363

Timechart : Last 30 days

comp	7126
error	36
Noncomp	146
NonRep	53
Total	7361

There is difference in count by 2 between these 2 functions.I am using a macro before the time chart or stats .Please help me with solution or cause of this issue.

Re: How to find the difference in count between stats and timechart command?

bowesmana — Sun, 27 Nov 2022 22:41:31 GMT

Your searches and your data examples don't seem to correlate.

Firstly you are not splitting by _time in your stats, so the stats command will give you a single set of stats by Status for the last 24 hours. Your bin _time is redundant. If you want to use bin with stats, you need to also use _time in the by clause, e.g.

|stats count by _time Status

Depending on when you are running the search and if the latest part of the search is anchored to a fixed time, it will vary every time you run it.

Your timechart search is producing percentage values, not counts.

Can you clarify exactly what your earliest and latest search criteria are for these two searches

Re: How to find the difference in count between stats and timechart command?

dtccsundar — Mon, 28 Nov 2022 00:32:30 GMT

I am not using earliest and latest in search .

But my requirement is for last 24 hours for stats and last 30 days for timechart .For time chart it will be selected in filter .

Re: How to find the difference in count between stats and timechart command?

bowesmana — Mon, 28 Nov 2022 02:58:17 GMT

Every search has an earliest and latest time range - it's a fundamental requirement for any search. It's either set by a time picker of specified in the search directly.

Last 24 hours in Splunk will typically mean -24h@h to "now", so it will be somewhere between 24 and 25 hours whereas your timechart will be working on day boundaries, because you have defined the time group to be a span of 1 day, so will be from midnight to midnight.

You need to make sure you are comparing comparable time ranges. "Last 24 hours" will never be the same time range as a 30 day time range

If you want "last 24 hours" to mean "yesterday", then your time range needs to be -d@d for the earliest time and @d for the latest time range in the time picker

Re: How to find the difference in count between stats and timechart command?

dtccsundar — Mon, 28 Nov 2022 03:39:32 GMT

I understand this .But I am using data warehouse view as source for the sourcetype using db connect .

It will have a static value for a particular day .But I am not sure why I am seeing difference between stats and timechart .

When I select yesterday in timechart it shows exact match with stats count .But when I select more than one day it shows difference .

It's strange but this is what iam getting .