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Multi Index combination

jerinvarghese
Communicator

Hi All,

Need to combine 2 index together and also need the values to be added/summed together.

Code 1 : 

 

index=nw_syslog message_type="BGP-5-ADJCHANGE"
| stats count by nodelabel, message_type
| table nodelabel, message_type, count

 

Table 1 : 

nodelabelmessage_typecount
AOKBFBGP PEER LOST2
CMPRSBGP PEER LOST2

 

Code 2: 

 

index=opennms 
| stats count by nodelabel, message_type
| table nodelabel, message_type, count

 

Table 2: 

nodelabelmessage_typecount
AOKBFBGP PEER LOST3
CMPRSBGP PEER LOST3

 

I used append and also  join type=outer nodelabel  but the value is not added.

 

Expected  Table Final : 

nodelabelmessage_typecount
AOKBFBGP PEER LOST5
CMPRSBGP PEER LOST5
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jerinvarghese
Communicator

Hi @gcusello ,

 

Got another solution 

 

index=nw_syslog message_type="BGP-5-ADJCHANGE"
| table nodelabel, message_type, count

| append [ search index=opennms 
| table nodelabel, message_type, count ]

| stats count by nodelabel, message_type, count

 

 

this provided me the desired value. thanks so much for your suggestion too. that to helped me in the result.

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gcusello
SplunkTrust
SplunkTrust

Hi @jerinvarghese,

your solution is like mine, but beware if the second search could have more than 50,000 results, because there's this limit in subsearches.

then beware to use the same field name for count.

Ciao.

Giuseppe

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gcusello
SplunkTrust
SplunkTrust

Hi @jerinvarghese,

if you have the same field names in both indexes is easier you can think:

(index=nw_syslog message_type="BGP-5-ADJCHANGE") OR (index=opennms)
| stats count BY nodelabel message_type
| table nodelabel, message_type, count

if instead you have different field names, you have to rename them to have the same field names.

In this way, you haven't the limit of 50,000 results in subsearches that you'd have using join or append.

Ciao.

Giuseppe

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