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How do you do a trend calculation with a plus sign?

jip31
Motivator

hello,

With the code below, i calculate a % trend between values. When the result of the trend is negative, a negative % is displayed. Perfect, but when the % is positive, I need to have, for example, +150% instead 150% .

Could you help me please?

index="windows-wmi" sourcetype="wmi:CPUload" (Name="mfetp/*" OR Name="mcshield/*") Name="mfetp*"   
| rex field=Name "^(?<Service>[^\/]+)[\/]"
| head 10
| stats avg(PercentProcessorTime) as CPU_PercentProcessorTime_AVG, avg(Timestamp_Sys100NS) as CPU_Timestamp_Sys100NS_AVG
| appendcols  
[ search index="windows-wmi" sourcetype="wmi:CPUload"    (Name="mfetp/*" OR Name="mcshield/*") Name="mfetp*"   
| rex field=Name "^(?<Service>[^\/]+)[\/]"
| head 10
| stats avg(PercentProcessorTime) as CPU_PercentProcessorTime_AVG2, avg(Timestamp_Sys100NS) as CPU_Timestamp_Sys100NS_AVG2]
| foreach CPU_*_AVG [
| eval perc<<MATCHSTR>>_AVG=case('<<FIELD>>'=='<<FIELD>>2',0, '<<FIELD>>'>'<<FIELD>>2', "-"
.round(('<<FIELD>>'/'<<FIELD>>2')*100,2), true(), "+".round(('<<FIELD>>2'/'<<FIELD>>')*100,2))]

| table percPercentProcessorTime_AVG, percTimestamp_Sys100NS_AVG 

| rename percPercentProcessorTime_AVG as ProcessorTime_Trend, percTimestamp_Sys100NS_AVG as Timestamp_Sys100NS_Trend
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KailA
Contributor

Hi,

You can use regular expression to check if there is a minus sign or not, and if not, add the plus sign to your percentage.
Below a working example :

| makeresults
| eval temp = split("150%;-97%",";")
| mvexpand temp
| rex field=temp "^(?<sign>.)"
| eval temp = if(sign="-",temp,"+".temp)

The first 3 lines are only there to generate example data.

Let me know 🙂

KailA

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mstjohn_splunk
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KailA
Contributor

Hi,

You can use regular expression to check if there is a minus sign or not, and if not, add the plus sign to your percentage.
Below a working example :

| makeresults
| eval temp = split("150%;-97%",";")
| mvexpand temp
| rex field=temp "^(?<sign>.)"
| eval temp = if(sign="-",temp,"+".temp)

The first 3 lines are only there to generate example data.

Let me know 🙂

KailA

Vijeta
Influencer

Hi ,

You can use the below statement before table command in your code-

eval  percPercentProcessorTime_AVG=printf("%+4d",percPercentProcessorTime_AVG)
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jip31
Motivator

hi thanks
what does exactly mean "%+4d" please?
if i want to adapt my code i just have to do :

| eval percPercentProcessorTime_AVG=printf("%+4d",percPercentProcessorTime_AVG)
| eval percTimestamp_Sys100NS_AVG =printf("%+4d", percTimestamp_Sys100NS_AVG)

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Vijeta
Influencer

This is a format, when you give a plus in printf, it displays + for numbers without sign and - for numbers with -ve sign. 4 is the precision of digits. This should work for your code.

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jip31
Motivator

thanks a lot

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