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Average of ratio of two fields?

travispowell
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in source X, I have fields A and B. I want to find the average ratio of two fields per hour. Something like:

source=X * | stats avg(eval(A/B)) by date_hour

...which obviously doesn't work. It says I need to rename something or rather...

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Ron_Naken
Splunk Employee
Splunk Employee

Have you tried it like this:

source=X * | eval ratio=A/B | stats avg(ratio) by date_hour

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Ron_Naken
Splunk Employee
Splunk Employee

Have you tried it like this:

source=X * | eval ratio=A/B | stats avg(ratio) by date_hour

travispowell
Path Finder

I feel like I do this so often. Yes I did try that, but you reminded me I needed to capitalize the fields. I'm positive splunk is case-sensitive.

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