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Get the count of events in a search and use it to calculate another field

deepaksn1214
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I need to get the count of the total number of events in the search and use it later to calculate the value of another field. 

I am trying to use the eventstats command to do it.  When i use the eventstats to create a new total field and later to compute the errorPercentage , it is always null. 

This is the sample query i am using: 

<search>
| eventstats count as total
| eval Message_new = 'Message.msg'
| rex mode=sed field=Message_new "s/^\"//g"
| eval new_msg=case(like(Message_new,"%xyz%"),"abc",like(Message_new,"%qqq%"),"aaaa",1==1,"unknown")
| eventstats max(_time) as maxtime, min(_time) as mintime
| eval midpoint=(maxtime + mintime) / 2 | eval Period=if(_time > midpoint,"interval_2","interval_1")
| eventstats count(new_msg) as errorcount by Period,new_msg
| xyseries new_msg Period errorcount | eval percentSpike = round((( interval_2 - interval_1 ) / interval_1 ) * 100)
| eval errorPercent = round(((interval_2 + interval_1) /total) * 100)
| table new_msg interval_1 interval_2 percentSpike errorPercent

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ITWhisperer
SplunkTrust
SplunkTrust

total doesn't make it past xyseries but you can recalculate total by summing the two intervals - run-anywhere example - replace the bit above the blank lines with your search and message manipulation

| gentimes start=-1 increment=1h 
| rename starttime as _time 
| fields _time
| eval new_msg=mvindex(split("abc,aaaa,unknown",","),random() % 3)



| eventstats max(_time) as maxtime min(_time) as mintime
| eval midpoint=(maxtime+mintime)/2
| eval Period=if(_time>midpoint,"interval_2","interval_1")
| eventstats count(new_msg) as errorcount by Period new_msg
| xyseries new_msg Period errorcount
| eval percentSpike = round((( interval_2 - interval_1 ) / interval_1 ) * 100)
| eventstats sum(interval_*) as total_*
| eval total=total_1+total_2
| eval errorPercent = round(((interval_2 + interval_1) /total) * 100)
| table new_msg interval_1 interval_2 percentSpike errorPercent

 

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ITWhisperer
SplunkTrust
SplunkTrust

total doesn't make it past xyseries but you can recalculate total by summing the two intervals - run-anywhere example - replace the bit above the blank lines with your search and message manipulation

| gentimes start=-1 increment=1h 
| rename starttime as _time 
| fields _time
| eval new_msg=mvindex(split("abc,aaaa,unknown",","),random() % 3)



| eventstats max(_time) as maxtime min(_time) as mintime
| eval midpoint=(maxtime+mintime)/2
| eval Period=if(_time>midpoint,"interval_2","interval_1")
| eventstats count(new_msg) as errorcount by Period new_msg
| xyseries new_msg Period errorcount
| eval percentSpike = round((( interval_2 - interval_1 ) / interval_1 ) * 100)
| eventstats sum(interval_*) as total_*
| eval total=total_1+total_2
| eval errorPercent = round(((interval_2 + interval_1) /total) * 100)
| table new_msg interval_1 interval_2 percentSpike errorPercent

 

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