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Lead\ Lag in splunk?

Yarsa
Path Finder

Hi, when I work with SQL I find the "Lead\ Lag" function very crutial.
I'm using it mostly between dates.
Does splunk supply an alternative?
thanks!

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Ayn
Legend

You could use streamstats (http://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/4.3/SearchReference/Streamstats ). Say you want LAG(field):

... | streamstats current=f last(field) as last_field

For LEAD, just get the results in reverse order (using reverse).

You might also want to have a look at delta which computes differences between values of a field for different events. http://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/4.3/SearchReference/Delta

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Ayn
Legend

You could use streamstats (http://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/4.3/SearchReference/Streamstats ). Say you want LAG(field):

... | streamstats current=f last(field) as last_field

For LEAD, just get the results in reverse order (using reverse).

You might also want to have a look at delta which computes differences between values of a field for different events. http://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/4.3/SearchReference/Delta

Yarsa
Path Finder

What if I want to lag values 7 rows apart (not just the previous one)?

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MarioM
Motivator

what do you want to achieve? any data sample to better understand?
Have you check this link:
http://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/latest/SearchReference/SQLtoSplunk

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