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How to Add Totals Line for Stats

David
Splunk Employee
Splunk Employee

I feel like this is something I should know already, but I can't find it anywhere.

If I have a query that calculates an amount of bandwidth, and a total cost per datacenter, say:

MySearch Host=MyHost | eval MBPS=.... 
                     | eval Cost=MBPS * 22 
                     | stats sum(Cost) as "Cost ($)" by datacenter

That will show the cost of running host MyHost for each datacenter. How do I have stats generate a totals line, that will show the total cost overall, without appending an identical search?

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sideview
SplunkTrust
SplunkTrust

Take a look at the addtotals command.

MySearch Host=MyHost | eval MBPS=.... 
| eval Cost=MBPS * 22 
| stats sum(Cost) as "Cost ($)" by datacenter
| addtotals

It will create a new row with the value of Host set to "Total", and the value of "Cost ($)" set to the appropriate total.

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sideview
SplunkTrust
SplunkTrust

Take a look at the addtotals command.

MySearch Host=MyHost | eval MBPS=.... 
| eval Cost=MBPS * 22 
| stats sum(Cost) as "Cost ($)" by datacenter
| addtotals

It will create a new row with the value of Host set to "Total", and the value of "Cost ($)" set to the appropriate total.

David
Splunk Employee
Splunk Employee

Ah ha! That sorted it (though in this case, it was addcoltotals instead of addtotals).

Thank you, sir!

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