topic Re: How to sort dynamic column names? in Splunk Search

How to sort dynamic column names?

avitallange — Tue, 04 Nov 2014 09:59:59 GMT

Hi,

I have 2 columns: Name and Value.
My column names are dynamically changed.
How can I sort the column Names?
Please note I cannot use fields command to set the order since I don't know the column names in advance.

This is an example for my search:

... | chart  avg(Value) AS Value by Name | sort  -Value | head 10 | eval N=Name | eval Name ="" | xyseries Name N Value

I am replacing the X and Y with xyseries, so I get dynamic column names.
Is it possible to sort them?

Re: How to sort dynamic column names?

vasanthmss — Tue, 04 Nov 2014 19:23:26 GMT

Try this

... | chart avg(Value) AS Value by Name | sort -Value | head 10 | eval N=Name | eval Name ="" | xyseries Name N Value | table *

Re: How to sort dynamic column names?

avitallange — Tue, 04 Nov 2014 20:46:04 GMT

Thanks for your response but it didn't help.
I am actually want to get my columns in the chart sorted.
I.E. the most highest column will be the most left column and the most lowest columns will be the most right column.

I am unable to do this because I used xyseries that replaced my axis and now each Value is a column and I cannot sort by this Value. Sort is working on column and now I need to sort by row.
Is this possible?

Re: How to sort dynamic column names?

somesoni2 — Tue, 04 Nov 2014 21:33:15 GMT

Try this workaround (it will add a rank to in the values of Name but will do the sorting)

... | chart avg(Value) AS Value by Name| sort - Value| head 10 | eval rank=1 | accum rank | eval rank=rank-1| eval Name=rank." ".Name | eval rank="" | xyseries rank Name Value | table rank *

Re: How to sort dynamic column names?

avitallange — Tue, 04 Nov 2014 22:09:52 GMT

This made the sort indeed.
Thanks you!!!

Re: How to sort dynamic column names?

avadhutha — Thu, 18 Jan 2024 14:32:04 GMT

@avitallangedo you have any solution to sort from higher to lower for a dynamic columns in a chart?

Re: How to sort dynamic column names?

DanielPi — Thu, 18 Jan 2024 15:01:56 GMT

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