topic Re: eventstats in Splunk Search

eventstats

passing — Tue, 09 Jul 2013 01:19:51 GMT

Noob question. What is the different between stats and eventstats commands?

Re: eventstats

cpeteman — Tue, 09 Jul 2013 01:22:36 GMT

Straight from documentation:

"Generate summary statistics of all existing fields in your search results and save them as values in new fields. Eventstats is similar to the stats command, except that aggregation results are added inline to each event and only if the aggregation is pertinent to that event."

Also, here are the link to the documentation files for stats and evenstats respectively:

http://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/5.0.3/SearchReference/Stats
http://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/5.0.3/SearchReference/Eventstats

There is no such thing as a question too "noob" but do try to do a little research before asking.

Re: eventstats

passing — Tue, 09 Jul 2013 02:01:07 GMT

Sorry. Thanks!

Re: eventstats

msarro — Mon, 05 Aug 2013 14:06:21 GMT

To be honest, I've used splunk for 3 years now and I still find the documentation to be pretty opaque at times - especially when you get into some of the less common commands like eventstats and streamstats. So I wouldn't worry too much. Do consult the docs before asking, but if you don't understand 100%, don't feel bad.

Re: eventstats

tmartin — Wed, 02 Apr 2014 13:36:33 GMT

Adding this to the conversation here ... hope it helps

http://blogs.splunk.com/2014/04/01/search-command-stats-eventstats-and-streamstats-2/

Re: eventstats

sahr — Sat, 10 Mar 2018 08:52:07 GMT

This blog was really useful for me when attempting to understand streamstats and eventstats. Thanks @tmartin