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How to compare data between two business weeks using time chart excluding weekends?

Devi13
Path Finder

Hello Team,

Could you please suggest on how to create an overlapping graph which compares this week's data and previous week's data excluding weekends.

Any help is very much appreciated.

My base search is very simple.
index=my index source=/.log '#search string#'
| time chart span=1h count(_raw) by host

 

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ITWhisperer
SplunkTrust
SplunkTrust

Repeat the first two lines - timechart adds the times back in, but the good thing about it is that if there are any hours without any events, you still get zeroes for those hours. If you use chart or stats instead, the times without events don't appear at all.

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Devi13
Path Finder

Greatt! Thank you so muchh for your help 🙂

 

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ITWhisperer
SplunkTrust
SplunkTrust
| eval day= strftime(_time,"%w")
| where day > 0 AND day < 6
| timechart span=1h count by host
| timewrap 1w align=end

Devi13
Path Finder

Hello, 

Thank you so so much , it works like a charm.

But I still get weekends in the results, is there a way to exclude them?

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ITWhisperer
SplunkTrust
SplunkTrust

Repeat the first two lines - timechart adds the times back in, but the good thing about it is that if there are any hours without any events, you still get zeroes for those hours. If you use chart or stats instead, the times without events don't appear at all.

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