Multi-column stats: average and count for a column

[isnoop]

I am building a search to find the average amount of time an action takes:

sourcetype="timelog" | stats avg(request_duration) by requested_file

However, I would also like to see the number of hits represented in that average which I would intuitively write like so:

sourcetype="timelog" | stats avg(request_duration), count(request_duration) by requested_file

Of course, this is invalid syntax because stats only allows one input column.

What is the proper way to write this search?

[gkanapathy]

The stats command allows many input columns and many aggregation functions on any or all of them. The above syntax is valid and correct for what you have stated.