Alternate to dedup

[rupesh26]

Hi,

I need to remove duplicates in my results, is there anyway to do this other than using dedup.
I used stats, eventstats still no luck

[nick405060]

stats count by your_field is faster than dedup if you don't want to keep other fields

[rupesh26]

Thanks nick, by I want to keep other fields as well to add it to a dashboard.

[nick405060]

Terribly inelegant, but you could stats count by your_field and then join those results with the same search copied and pasted

<your_search> ... | table your_field b c | stats count by your_field | join type=left your_field [<your_search>] | table your_field b c

[rupesh26]

Really appreciate it Nick , I will try these options.

[nick405060]

Also for reference

https://answers.splunk.com/answers/789749/dedup-vs-stats-performance.html

(I am on the same page as you in that 99.9999% of the time I want to keep my other fields as well, which makes stats values absolutely useless in this "debate")

[jscraig2006]

@ rupesh26 try a distinct count:
| stats dc(<your_feild>)

[nick405060]

This counts distinct values it does not dedup.

[rupesh26]

Yes, that's correct

[nick405060]

So... this does not answer the question lol

[jscraig2006]

Apologies! I should have read the question more carefully!