topic Re: Is eventstats a "Distributable" command ? in Splunk Search

Is eventstats a "Distributable" command ?

KarunK — Mon, 23 May 2016 00:42:05 GMT

Hi All,

I am trying to improve my run time for a large search and i need some help to identify whether eventstats is a Distributable command. From the documentation i know streamstats is Centralized streaming. link:SearchReference/Commandsbytype
What i am trying to achive is not to use those search commands which requires data to be uploaded to Search Heads.

Thanks for your help.

Regards

Re: Is eventstats a "Distributable" command ?

somesoni2 — Mon, 23 May 2016 02:27:13 GMT

Strangely eventstats is not listed but based on its similarity to streamstats, my bet will be on centralized streaming.

Re: Is eventstats a "Distributable" command ?

KarunK — Mon, 23 May 2016 04:41:51 GMT

That was my guess too. Thanks for your response. Appreciate that.
Any one else have a different opinion ?

Re: Is eventstats a "Distributable" command ?

woodcock — Mon, 23 May 2016 06:02:17 GMT

The eventstats command has the same distribution limitations/characteristics (or not) as stats does so it should fall into the same category as stats, not streamstats. It is interesting that eventstats does not appear at all on that page.

Re: Is eventstats a "Distributable" command ?

michael_bates_1 — Wed, 01 Nov 2017 09:44:14 GMT

From the doco.

Other commands
There are a handful of commands that do not fit into these categories. These commands are non-transforming, not distributable, and not streaming: sort, eventstats, some modes of dedup, and some modes of cluster.