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Help on basic questions about a by clause

jip31
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hi

sorry for this question but I have difficulties to understand why a by clause with 3 conditions retrieve less events than a clause with 2 events

Is the difference is on the field _time?

 

 

| stats count as PbPerf by _time toto tutu
| stats count as PbPerf by _time toto

 

 

 thanks

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smurf
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Hi,

fields in the by clause cannot be empty. If it is empty, it does not show up in the results.

Try using fillnull before running the stats command like this:

| fillnull tutu value="n/a"

 

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smurf
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Hi,

fields in the by clause cannot be empty. If it is empty, it does not show up in the results.

Try using fillnull before running the stats command like this:

| fillnull tutu value="n/a"

 

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