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How do I query the percentage of unique sessions seeing errors?

cochang
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I'm trying to come up with a query that's a percentage of users (via session ids) experiencing errors. i can find the number of unique sessions with index="my-index" | stats dc(session_id) and the number of unique users seeing errors with index="my-index" category="error" | stats dc(session_id), but I can't seem to bring these two numbers together and make a ratio. Any recommendations?

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whrg
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Hello @cochang,

Try using the appendcols command:

index="my-index" | stats dc(session_id) as total_sessions
| appendcols [search index="my-index" category="error" | stats dc(session_id) as error_sessions]
| eval percentage=round(error_sessions/total_sessions*100,2)."%"

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whrg
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Hello @cochang,

Try using the appendcols command:

index="my-index" | stats dc(session_id) as total_sessions
| appendcols [search index="my-index" category="error" | stats dc(session_id) as error_sessions]
| eval percentage=round(error_sessions/total_sessions*100,2)."%"
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