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Statistics: Creating Histogram out of a time bucketed Statictic

oldtester
Explorer

Excited to post my first Splunk question.

I want to perform statistical analysis on API response time that I get from our app server log.

The log format is:
timestamp1 API=<api1> ResponseTime=<R1>
timestamp2 API=<api2> ResponseTime=<R2>
timestamp3 API=<api3> ResponseTime=<R3>
timestamp1 API=<api1> ResponseTime=<R4>
..
..
For a week of data I want to plot the histogram of the hourly average of ResponseTime for api1.

I did the following query:
index=<index> api1|bucket _time span=1h|stats avg(ResponseTime) by _time

Now how do I take the result of the above query and build a histogram?

I did the following:
index=<index> api1|bucket _time span=1h|stats avg(ResponseTime) by _time as X|stats count(X)

But this query seems to be wrong.

Could you please recommend the correct query?

1 Solution

oldtester
Explorer

Hi ngatchasandra,

It is not resulting in a series of values to plot a histogram. It is returning a single number(count).
What I am looking for is a frequency chart of hoourly average values .

I did the following:
index= api1|bucket _time span=1h|stats avg(ResponseTime) by _time |rename avg(ResponseTime) as X|stats values(X)
It is indeed giving a set of values for the average. Now, how in the search I do a frequency chart of these values?

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oldtester
Explorer

Looks like it is working!. Just added bins=100 to your query.
index= api1|bucket _time span=1h|stats avg(ResponseTime) by _time |rename avg(ResponseTime) as X|stats values(X)|chart count by values(x) bins=100

ngatchasandra
Builder

Please, you did not give me points . Perhaps it is to you even you have to give the points. Can you correct it?

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oldtester
Explorer

Hi ngatchasandra,

It is not resulting in a series of values to plot a histogram. It is returning a single number(count).
What I am looking for is a frequency chart of hoourly average values .

I did the following:
index= api1|bucket _time span=1h|stats avg(ResponseTime) by _time |rename avg(ResponseTime) as X|stats values(X)
It is indeed giving a set of values for the average. Now, how in the search I do a frequency chart of these values?

ngatchasandra
Builder

Yes, try with index= api1|bucket _time span=1h|stats avg(ResponseTime) by _time |rename avg(ResponseTime) as X|stats values(X)|chart count by values(x)

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ngatchasandra
Builder

Hi oldtester,

Try with index= api1|bucket _time span=1h|stats avg(ResponseTime) by _time |rename avg(ResponseTime) as X|stats count(X) by _time

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ngatchasandra
Builder

Try now with index= api1|bucket _time span=1h|stats avg(ResponseTime) by _time |rename avg(ResponseTime) as X|stats values(X)|chart count by values(x)

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