Reporting

Calculate Difference Between Same Field in Different Rows

he204035
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If I have the following table using columns DATE and USAGE, is there a way to create a 3rd column to display the difference in the USAGE column from Day X to previous day?

 

DATE USAGE

Feb-28
Feb-29
Mar-01
Mar-02
Mar-03
Mar-04
Mar-05
Mar-06
Mar-07
Mar-08
Mar-09
Mar-10
Mar-11
Mar-12
17.68 gb
18.53 gb
19.66 gb
21.09 gb
22.04 gb
23.21 gb
24.20 gb
24.94 gb
25.64 gb
26.80 gb
27.79 gb
29.07 gb
30.09 gb
31.01 gb
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ITWhisperer
SplunkTrust
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Assuming these are numeric (not strings), you can use streamstats

| streamstats window=2 range(USAGE) as difference
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