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Show all buckets of _time in visualization including zero counts

jcrochon
Explorer

Hello Splunker,

I'm trying to display a 'timestamp, event count' visualization including counts of zero events

host="[redacted]" src_port=* | bucket _time span=1h | stats count by _time | eval _time=strftime(_time, "%Y-%m-%d %H:%M")

Results
2017-09-05 12:00 2
2017-09-05 13:00 1
2017-09-05 16:00 1

Expected Results
2017-09-05 12:00 2
2017-09-05 13:00 1
2017-09-05 14:00 0
2017-09-05 15:00 0
2017-09-05 16:00 1

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1 Solution

DalJeanis
Legend

Try this -

host="[redacted]" src_port=* 
| bucket _time span=1h 
| stats count as mycount by _time 
| appendpipe 
    [| stats min(_time) as mintime max(_time) as maxtime 
     | eval maxtime=maxtime+1 
     | eval mytime=mvrange(mintime, maxtime,3600) 
     | mvexpand mytime 
     | eval _time=mytime 
     | eval mycount=0 
     | table _time mycount
     ]
| stats sum(mycount) as mycount by _time 
| eval _time=strftime(_time, "%Y-%m-%d %H:%M")

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DalJeanis
Legend

Try this -

host="[redacted]" src_port=* 
| bucket _time span=1h 
| stats count as mycount by _time 
| appendpipe 
    [| stats min(_time) as mintime max(_time) as maxtime 
     | eval maxtime=maxtime+1 
     | eval mytime=mvrange(mintime, maxtime,3600) 
     | mvexpand mytime 
     | eval _time=mytime 
     | eval mycount=0 
     | table _time mycount
     ]
| stats sum(mycount) as mycount by _time 
| eval _time=strftime(_time, "%Y-%m-%d %H:%M")
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