Dashboard Studio count input

[jwhughes58]

I'm working with Dashboard Studio for the first time and I've got another question.

In the input on the Dashboard, I set this $servers_entered$.  I thought I had a solution for counting how many items are in $servers_entered$, but I found a case that failed.  This is what $servers_entered$ looks like.

host_1, host_2, host_3, host_4, ..., host_n

What I need is a way of counting how many entries are in $servers_entered$.  So far the commands I've tried have failed.  What would work?

TIA,

Joe

[jwhughes58 · Accepted solution]

This works.

| makeresults
| fields - _time
| eval hosts="$servers_entered$"
| makemv delim="," hosts
| eval count=mvcount(hosts)
| table count

[ITWhisperer]

Have you tried 

mvcount($servers_entered$)

[jwhughes58]

@ITWhispererThanks, but those didn't work.  I tried both of these.

| makeresults
| fields - _time
| eval count=mvcount($servers_entered$)

mvcount($servers_entered$)

The first errors.  The second returns 0.