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Calculate average from two fields

BornConfused
Engager

My initial log looks something like:

The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog, and it jumped in 23092 seconds.

Trying to extract the number value and get an average. I have a query which extracts the 14th value, essentially a time field. This query works, but I am trying to get an average of the times per host.

| rex field=_raw "(\S+\s+){13}(?<processTime>\S+)\s"
| stats count by processTime, host

processTime                host
23092                             host123
45098                             host088
98987                             host238
23092                             host123
23092                             host123
98656                             host088
54545                             host238

I need an average for host123, host088, host238

The above query is also grouping the same times and displaying the counts, which is not preferred. 

 

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rnowitzki
Builder

Hi @BornConfused ,

If I understood your requirement correct, it should be as simple as:

|  stats avg(processTime) by host

 
When I add the sample table you provided as input, the given command puts out the average processing time per host:

host	avg(processTime)
host088	71877
host123	23092
host238	76766


Hope it helps.
BR
Ralph

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rnowitzki
Builder

Hi @BornConfused ,

If I understood your requirement correct, it should be as simple as:

|  stats avg(processTime) by host

 
When I add the sample table you provided as input, the given command puts out the average processing time per host:

host	avg(processTime)
host088	71877
host123	23092
host238	76766


Hope it helps.
BR
Ralph

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Karma and/or Solution tagging appreciated.
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BornConfused
Engager

Thank you ! This worked like a charm, I didn't think it was this easy.

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inventsekar
SplunkTrust
SplunkTrust

Please check this: 

base search query| stats count(processTime) by host 
| stats avg(count) as AvgProcessTime by host

 

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BornConfused
Engager

Thank you, for your answer. But, this would return the number of times the base search was found by host:

| stats count(processTime) by host 

but thats not what is expected. I have updated the question to reflect the initial log. 

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