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How to find out the event with max duration?

chhawu
New Member

How to find out the event with max duration?
I used command transaction to group events and I want to find out the event with max duration.

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HiroshiSatoh
Champion

Details are unknown, but ...
・・・・|transaction ・・・・|stats max(duration)
OR
・・・・|transaction ・・・・|sort -duration|head 1

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akocak
Contributor

Selected answer correct for if you have one field name, for multiple similarly I use:

|sort - duration
|dedup field_name
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HiroshiSatoh
Champion

Details are unknown, but ...
・・・・|transaction ・・・・|stats max(duration)
OR
・・・・|transaction ・・・・|sort -duration|head 1

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chhawu
New Member

You are right ! I try to search with second search script to get the longest transaction,but is there any way to show column one "max(duration)" and column two _raw at once?

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Richfez
SplunkTrust
SplunkTrust

Instead of doing the ... | head 1, try instead using the limit=<number> parameter of the sort. Then to make it pretty or include other fields, use the table command.

... | transaction ...stuff...  |table duration, _raw  | sort limit=1 - duration 

Give that a shot and see if it works for you.

Happy Splunking!
Rich

chhawu
New Member

Hi Rich

Thanks ! I am going to modify my search script base on your suggestion.

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