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How to combine values from stats into single row?

TribesmanJohn
Explorer

Hi All,

I am looking into using some proxy logs to determine download volume for particular streaming sites and was looking for a way to merge hostnames into one "service".

Consider the SPL:

index=proxy url=*.streaming-site.com
| eval megabytes=round(((bytes_in/1024)/1024),2)
| stats sum(megabytes) as Download_MB by url
| sort -Download_MB

Will likely return multiple rows like:

cdn1.streaming-site.com    180.3
cdn2.streaming-site.com 164.8
www.streaming-site.com  12.3

I am wanting to merge those all into one row of

streaming-site.com   357.4

I have played around with the coalesce function, but this would be unsustainable for sites like Netflix which have dozens of URLs associated with them.

If anyone has any suggestions on how I might combine results with say a wildcard (*), I'd love to hear from you!

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richgalloway
SplunkTrust
SplunkTrust

The coalesce function selects a field within a single result.  To combine (aggregate) multiple results, use the stats command again after modifying the url field.

index=proxy url=*.streaming-site.com
| eval megabytes=round(((bytes_in/1024)/1024),2)
| stats sum(megabytes) as Download_MB by url
| eval url=replace(url, ".*?\.(.*)","\1")
| stats sum(Download_MB) as Download_MB by url
| sort - Download_MB

 

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TribesmanJohn
Explorer

Thanks for this! 🙂

More tweaking required on my part as some of the subdomains being evaluated have more than 3 levels, but this is a big help in getting me on the right track!

richgalloway
SplunkTrust
SplunkTrust

The coalesce function selects a field within a single result.  To combine (aggregate) multiple results, use the stats command again after modifying the url field.

index=proxy url=*.streaming-site.com
| eval megabytes=round(((bytes_in/1024)/1024),2)
| stats sum(megabytes) as Download_MB by url
| eval url=replace(url, ".*?\.(.*)","\1")
| stats sum(Download_MB) as Download_MB by url
| sort - Download_MB

 

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If this reply helps you, Karma would be appreciated.
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