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How to get sum of all columns into a new column?

paullt12345
Explorer

Hi

I need to do a sum of all columns into new column

EVNT  COL1  COL2  COL3 SUM
1       22   22     22  66
2       1     0     0    1

-paull

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vnravikumar
Champion

Hi

You can try

| makeresults 
| eval EVNT=1,COL1=22,COL2=22,COL3=22,SUM=0 
| foreach COL* 
    [ eval SUM = SUM+<<FIELD>>] 
| table EVNT,COL1,COL2,COL3,SUM

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renjith_nair
Legend

@paullt12345 ,

Just add |addtotals fieldname=sum to your search and you get a new sum field

https://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/SplunkCloud/7.2.4/SearchReference/Addtotals

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ClubMed
Path Finder

5 years later and I came upon this. This should be the actual, concise answer for OP's question.

paullt12345
Explorer

Thanks it also works as expected.

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vnravikumar
Champion

Hi

You can try

| makeresults 
| eval EVNT=1,COL1=22,COL2=22,COL3=22,SUM=0 
| foreach COL* 
    [ eval SUM = SUM+<<FIELD>>] 
| table EVNT,COL1,COL2,COL3,SUM

paullt12345
Explorer

Thanks...

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