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How to sort by max value of a dynamic set of columns

dbendixen
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I have a Splunk query that shows a count of error codes by software version. The table looks something like this:

Error Code      1.1     1.2     1.3
Error 1         5       0       10
Error 2         7       9       0
Error 3         20      3       8

What I'd like to do is dynamically find the column with the max value across all columns and sort descending on that column. Is that even possible?

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somesoni2
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Try this (may be inefficient) workaround

"Your  base search giving you output in Above format" | table [search "Your  base search giving you output in Above format" | untable "Error Code" SoftwareVersion Count | stats max(Count) as count by SoftwareVersion | sort 0 - count | stats list(SoftwareVersion) as search | nomv search] 

dbendixen
Explorer

I will give this a try, thanks!

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