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How do I display the largest value of multiple fields in an event?

sajbutler
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I have a search which results in an event which has multiple instances of the field eltime.

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Does anyone know how I can only display the largest value of the field eltime

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lpolo
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did you tried:

|stats max(eltime) as largest_value_of_eltime.

lpolo
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If eltime is the result of a transaction command your transaction command should group all the values of eltime in a multi-value list. Then, you should be able to get the maximum. like for example:

|transaction eltime delim="," mvlist=eltime|eval maximum_eltime=max(eltime)|table maximum_eltime

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sajbutler
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Doesn't quite work the way I want it to. I want to determine the maximum value of eltime for each event (there are multiple instances of eltime for each event - This is because each event is an output of the transaction command)

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