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Frequency of events - how often an event was logged

Derek
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Does anyone have a good way (or am I missing the something obvious?) of calculating for a defined time range the average frequency of the events logged?

Such as eventtype A appeared every X minutes.

Thanks!

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Simeon
Splunk Employee
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I would use eval in combination with stats. For example:

sourcetype=apache_error earliest=-60m | stats count as total | eval errors_per_min=(total/60) | fields error_per_min

This would take the total # of events over the past 60 minutes, then divide by 60 to get you a count per minute. Or from the advanced charting view:

sourcetype=apache_error earliest=-60m | timechart span=1m count as error_per_min 

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Simeon
Splunk Employee
Splunk Employee

I would use eval in combination with stats. For example:

sourcetype=apache_error earliest=-60m | stats count as total | eval errors_per_min=(total/60) | fields error_per_min

This would take the total # of events over the past 60 minutes, then divide by 60 to get you a count per minute. Or from the advanced charting view:

sourcetype=apache_error earliest=-60m | timechart span=1m count as error_per_min 

Derek
Path Finder

I knew I missing something obvious :slightly_smiling_face:

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