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How to achieve timechart query group by multiple fields?

splunkuser320
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Hi, I am trying to create a line graph where I want to show job status overtime. So I want 1 line for failed and another for passed jobs.

query |
| rex field=event "'job_name': '(?<job_name>.+?)',"
| rex field=event "'job_status': '(?<job_status>.+?)',"
| timechart count by job_status

 

Above query is grouping by staus all jobs together. I want to split the status by jobs. 

Thanks

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acharlieh
Influencer

If you watch @alacercogitatus' perennial .conf talk "Lesser Known Search Commands" , another way to achieve this, is through using eval to create fields named for other field values. 

For example: 

| rex ... 
| eval JS_{job_status} = 1
| timechart count(JS_*) as * by job_name


Of course I'm assuming there's not many potential values to job_status, or else, oof, that could be a bit brutal for the number of fields...  and you can use this trick with any other statistical function here as well... 

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acharlieh
Influencer

If you watch @alacercogitatus' perennial .conf talk "Lesser Known Search Commands" , another way to achieve this, is through using eval to create fields named for other field values. 

For example: 

| rex ... 
| eval JS_{job_status} = 1
| timechart count(JS_*) as * by job_name


Of course I'm assuming there's not many potential values to job_status, or else, oof, that could be a bit brutal for the number of fields...  and you can use this trick with any other statistical function here as well... 

bowesmana
SplunkTrust
SplunkTrust

The simplest way is to do

query |
| rex field=event "'job_name': '(?<job_name>.+?)',"
| rex field=event "'job_status': '(?<job_status>.+?)',"
| eval series=job_name.":".job_status
| timechart count by series
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