How to create table based on TRUE result?

[bomran]

I'm trying to create a query that will show me {stuff} that's happening outside of 'typical' working hours (i.e. Sat/Sun, Outside of 9 to 5 with a couple hours grace).

I am using the below query to create what's essentially a boolean value (starting with day only) and I want to return a Table based on 1/True

index="<some_index>" 
| eval day_of_week=strftime(_time,"%A") 
| eval is_outside=case(day_of_week == "Saturday" OR day_of_week == "Sunday", "1",
0=0, "0") 
| where is_outside == "1"

This creates a field that looks like something I can work with. I'm just not sure how to return a table with only "1" values

I've tried things along the lines of the below to no avail.

| eval test=if(day_of_week, [ table action ], "")

[niketn · Accepted solution]

@bomran, you should filter the results upfront rather than getting all the data and then applying filter only for Saturday or Sunday. Try the following search.

index="<some_index>"  date_wday="saturday" OR date_wday="sunday" 

[bomran]

Nice, I didn't know about date_wday. Much easier, thanks.

[niketn]

Filtering results upfront in the base search would be faster as well. 🙂

[bomran]

Nevermind, I'm having one of those days.

| where is_outside == "1" works.

Happy to know if there are better ways of doing this, if not I'll post this as an answer.

[tiagofbmm]

I think you could filter those right away instead of getting all events and the filter, like this:

index="<some_index>" 
    [| makeresults 
    | eval date_wday="saturday" 
    | append 
        [| makeresults 
        | eval date_wday="sunday"] 
    | return 2 date_wday]