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Group by latest modified time

ajitsd
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I have a dataset in Splunk that roughly looks like this

ID=1, Status="Pending", LastModifiedDate="2013-07-14 00:00:00.000", Product=xyz
ID=2, Status="Delivered", LastModifiedDate="2013-07-15 00:00:00.000", Product=xyz
ID=1, Status="Billed", LastModifiedDate="2013-07-16 00:00:00.000", Product=xyz
ID=2, Status="Pending", LastModifiedDate="2013-07-14 00:00:00.000", Product=xyz
ID=1, Status="Delivered", LastModifiedDate="2013-07-15 00:00:00.000", Product=xyz

I was looking for a query that will return the latest (top) modified event group by ID. The query should also suppress older events. For the above set, I was looking at the query to return the following result:

ID=1, Status="Billed", LastModifiedDate="2013-07-16 00:00:00.000", Product=xyz
ID=2, Status="Delivered", LastModifiedDate="2013-07-15 00:00:00.000", Product=xyz

Any ideas on syntax for the query?

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grijhwani
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{search} | dedup ID sortby -LastModifiedDate
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grijhwani
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It's not a question of syntax, it's a question of knowing functions.

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