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Display top 3 Employees by Class Frequency

efelder0
Communicator

I have 2 fields in CSV that I want to only display the top 3 employees by the Class frequency. I know the Top command will suffice, but not sure of the syntax.

Here is a sampling of data:
Employee_ID Class_Frequency
tsmith 2388
mjones 81
smurphy 6591
tpayne 1309
jjones 109

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jfreund
Explorer

| top limit=3 Class_Frequency by Employee_ID showcount=f showperc=f

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dmaislin_splunk
Splunk Employee
Splunk Employee
 * | chart count(Employee_ID) as count by Class_Frequency | sort - count | head 3

or


 * | stats count(Employee_ID) by Class_Frequency | sort - count | head 3

efelder0
Communicator

sort - Classification_Frequency | head 3 worked..

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