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Bucket:ed stats

carlpett
Engager

Our error logs are indexed by splunk, and I would like to pull some statistics from this. I want something like an aggregated count from each log source, bucket:ed into say 10 minute intervals, reported by the last 60 minutes.

For instance, something like this

Logging source | 60 minutes | 50 minutes | 40 minutes | 30 minutes | 20 minutes | 10 minutes
Method 1       | 5          | 6          | 10         | 2          | 4          | 8
Method 2       | 7          | 2          | 0          | 3          | 1          | 4
Method 3       | 51         | 30         | 34         | 62         | 41         | 28

I can't quite get my head around how to formulate this query though. I tried this:

index=...etc... | bucket _time span=10m | stats count by _time,LogSource | table count, LogSource, _time

Which is sort of "transposed" from what I really want, it's formatted like this instead:

_time                  | Count | LogSource 
2/7/13 9:50:00.000 AM  | 4     | Method 1
2/7/13 9:20:00.000 AM  | 10    | Method 1
2/7/13 9:20:00.000 AM  | 34    | Method 3
2/7/13 9:40:00.000 AM  | 2     | Method 2
2/7/13 10:00:00.000 AM | 8     | Method 1
2/7/13 9:40:00.000 AM  | 30    | Method 3

How can I turn this into the query I want?

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martin_mueller
SplunkTrust
SplunkTrust

Try this instead of your stats | table:

... | chart count over LogSource by _time

To get the X minutes you may want to eval yourself a new field with the time differences.

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Paolo_Prigione
Builder

You can transpose such results with "xyseries", but probably you will have to transform the _time column to something ad-hoc. E.g.

index=...etc... 
| bucket _time span=10m 
| stats count by _time, LogSource 
| table count, LogSource, _time
| convert(_time) as time timeformat="%H_%M"
| xyseries LogSource time count
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martin_mueller
SplunkTrust
SplunkTrust

Try this instead of your stats | table:

... | chart count over LogSource by _time

To get the X minutes you may want to eval yourself a new field with the time differences.

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