Knowledge Management

convert memk() function usage

kannu
Communicator

Hello All ,

Greetings

 

I am looking for perfect explanation of memk() function used with convert statement , how it works and where to pass the m,g,k (The letter k indicates kilobytes, m indicates megabytes, and g indicates gigabytes) .

when i am trying this function to convert kb to KB , i am not seeing any change in values . Please help 

index=_internal source="*metric*" |convert memk(kb) as KB |table kb , KB

 

kannu_0-1720176545437.png

 

Thanks

Manish Kumar

 

 

 

Labels (1)
Tags (3)
0 Karma
1 Solution

isoutamo
SplunkTrust
SplunkTrust

Hi

this seems to work.

| makeresults
| eval gb=1, gb=gb . "g"
| convert memk(gb) as kb_c
| eval kb=round(kb_c/1024/1024,2)

Destination will be always as KB.

r. Ismo 

View solution in original post

bowesmana
SplunkTrust
SplunkTrust

What difference are you expecting? Are you trying to say that in your example kb is 1000 based and you want to convert to 1024 based. That is not what memk does. In this case just do

| eval KB=round(kb/1.024,3)

If they are both 1024 based, then they are the same number, so memk will not do anything.

 

0 Karma

isoutamo
SplunkTrust
SplunkTrust

Hi

this seems to work.

| makeresults
| eval gb=1, gb=gb . "g"
| convert memk(gb) as kb_c
| eval kb=round(kb_c/1024/1024,2)

Destination will be always as KB.

r. Ismo 

Got questions? Get answers!

Join the Splunk Community Slack to learn, troubleshoot, and make connections with fellow Splunk practitioners in real time!

Meet up IRL or virtually!

Join Splunk User Groups to connect and learn in-person by region or remotely by topic or industry.

Get Updates on the Splunk Community!

Announcing Modern Navigation: A New Era of Splunk User Experience

We are excited to introduce the Modern Navigation feature in the Splunk Platform, available to both cloud and ...

Modernize your Splunk Apps – Introducing Python 3.13 in Splunk

We are excited to announce that the upcoming releases of Splunk Enterprise 10.2.x and Splunk Cloud Platform ...

Step into “Hunt the Insider: An Splunk ES Premier Mystery” to catch a cybercriminal ...

After a whole week of being on call, you fell asleep on your keyboard, and you hit a sequence of buttons that ...