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How do I get an accurate count for a field that has values in different formats?

vinay4444
Explorer

Hi

We have field that has data in different formats (having values in [] but other simply name) e.g.

itemkey = ms.db.cpu_usage_percent[WL_DBA]
itemkey = ms.db.locks_count

I use the search below to get distinct metrics name stripping out workload [WL_DBA] but it does not count metrics without [] like ms.db.locks_count how do I get counts of both together?

index=xxxx sourcetype="xxx" value >= 0.000 | rex field=itemKey (?<metric>.)[(?<space>.)] | dedup metric | stats count(metric)
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somesoni2
Revered Legend

Try something like this

index=xxxx sourcetype="xxx" value >= 0.000 | rex field=itemKey "(?<metric>[^\[]*)" | dedup metric | stats count(metric)

OR

  index=xxxx sourcetype="xxx" value >= 0.000 | eval metric=replace(itemKey,"(.*)\[.*\]","\1") | stats dc(metric)

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somesoni2
Revered Legend

Try something like this

index=xxxx sourcetype="xxx" value >= 0.000 | rex field=itemKey "(?<metric>[^\[]*)" | dedup metric | stats count(metric)

OR

  index=xxxx sourcetype="xxx" value >= 0.000 | eval metric=replace(itemKey,"(.*)\[.*\]","\1") | stats dc(metric)
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