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How to calculate the total CPU by top result

wisespot
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Hi, all, I am a newbie in splunk. I have encounter a problem when play around with *NIX app in Splunk. I am going to calculate the total CPU usage in each minutes

   PID  USER              PR    NI    VIRT     RES     SHR   S  pctCPU  pctMEM       cpuTIME  COMMAND
 32206  root              15     0    298m    129m     10m   S    19.3     0.8      15:46.08  splunkd
 14559  root              15     0   13016    1224     708   R     3.9     0.0       0:00.03  top
     1  root              15     0   10348     684     576   S     0.0     0.0       0:04.85  init
     2  root              RT    -5       0       0       0   S     0.0     0.0       0:00.08  migration/0
     3  root              34    19       0       0       0   S     0.0     0.0       0:00.00  ksoftirqd/0
     4  root              RT    -5       0       0       0   S     0.0     0.0       0:00.00  watchdog/0
     5  root              RT    -5       0       0       0   S     0.0     0.0       0:00.13  migration/1
     6  root              34    19       0       0       0   S     0.0     0.0       0:00.00  ksoftirqd/1
     7  root              RT    -5       0       0       0   S     0.0     0.0       0:00.00  watchdog/1

I don't know how to extract the pctCPU value. Any hint?

Thank you.

Regards, Alister

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ziegfried
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The multikv command helps you to split the tabular formatted events in to separate ones.

You can use a query like this:

sourcetype=ps | multikv | stats sum(pctCPU) as sumPctCPU by _time,host | timechart span=1m avg(sumPctCPU) by host
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