topic Re: How to display comma-delimited numbers in a timechart sum in Splunk Search

How to display comma-delimited numbers in a timechart sum

wrangler2x — Mon, 01 May 2017 18:13:42 GMT

I have this search

| tstats count AS myCount WHERE index=* by index, _time 
| where _time > relative_time(now(), "-1mon@mon") AND _time < relative_time(now(), "@mon") 
| timechart span=1mon sum(myCount) by index

which returns one column for each index, with the heading being the indexes name, and the content under that the sum of events for that index in the specified time-frame.

How can I get this sum to display with commas? (like 158,313,959 instead of 158313959.)

Re: How to display comma-delimited numbers in a timechart sum

rjthibod — Mon, 01 May 2017 18:20:33 GMT

To answer your question, use the following

| timechart span=1mon eval(tostring(sum(myCount), "commas")) by index

Another recommendation, remove your second line and put the time bounds in the first part of the query

| tstats count AS myCount WHERE index=* earliest=-1mon@mon latest=@mon by index, _time | timechart span=1mon eval(tostring(sum(myCount), "commas")) by index

Re: How to display comma-delimited numbers in a timechart sum

somesoni2 — Mon, 01 May 2017 18:27:38 GMT

Just add following foreach command to your search

...your current search.. | foreach * [eval "<<FIELD>>"=tostring('<<FIELD>>',"commas") ]

Re: How to display comma-delimited numbers in a timechart sum

wrangler2x — Mon, 01 May 2017 18:48:35 GMT

Adding the eval to the timechart was something I had already tried. Does not work.

Re: How to display comma-delimited numbers in a timechart sum

rjthibod — Mon, 01 May 2017 19:00:50 GMT

I am confused because I get the result you requested if I copy and paste the query I posted. In general, one should avoid foreach as much as possible.

Re: How to display comma-delimited numbers in a timechart sum

wrangler2x — Mon, 01 May 2017 22:01:25 GMT

Okay, I tried this again because of your comment and it does work. Last time I tried it I got no results found. I'm thinking I must have had the time picker on some weird setting. So I'm using this now, including the recommendation. Thanks.

Re: How to display comma-delimited numbers in a timechart sum

rjthibod — Tue, 02 May 2017 10:08:26 GMT

Thank you for reconsidering.