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nicco
Explorer

This is the reference that I'm looking at:
http://www.splunk.com/wiki/Community:TroubleshootingIndexedDataVolume

Specifically this search:

index=_internal source=*license_usage* pool="default" | eval GB=b/1024/1024/1024 | stats sum(GB) by pool | where sum(GB) > 0.3

And I get this error:

Error in 'where' command: The 'sum' function is unsupported or undefined.

Relating to this part of the search:

where sum(GB) > 0.3

So, I look up the search manual and there is in fact no sum function to the where command. I've tried a bunch of variations and I'm not getting the expected result.

Can anyone shed any light on where I'm going wrong (and fix the doco)

Thanks.

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gkanapathy
Splunk Employee
Splunk Employee

The correct syntax is either:

index=_internal source=license_usage pool="default" | eval GB=b/1024/1024/1024 | stats sum(GB) by pool | where 'sum(GB)' > 0.3

i.e., single quote sum(GB). It is not a function. It is a variable name that was created by stats. You could also use:

index=_internal source=license_usage pool="default" | eval GB=b/1024/1024/1024 | stats sum(GB) as sumGB by pool | where sumGB > 0.3

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