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Search showing time in months in alphabetic order

kml_uvce
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My search showing alphabetic order in months(like chart is in this order (dec,feb,jan, nov)

|eval month=strftime(strptime(lsCDR_endTime,"%Y-%m-%d"),"%b") | chart sum(lsCDR_duration) as Duration(in sec) over month

Can someone please help me on this ?

kamal singh bisht
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gkanapathy
Splunk Employee
Splunk Employee

You can use the fieldformat command to retain numeric sort order, while changing how a field's value is displayed. You will need to rewrite your search, e.g."

<search> 
 | eval month=strftime(strptime(lsCDR_endTime,"%Y-%m-%d"),"%m")
 | fieldformat month=strftime(strptime(lsCDR_endTime,"%Y-%m-%d"),"%b")
 | chart sum(lsCDR_duration) as Duration(in sec) over month

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gkanapathy
Splunk Employee
Splunk Employee

You can use the fieldformat command to retain numeric sort order, while changing how a field's value is displayed. You will need to rewrite your search, e.g."

<search> 
 | eval month=strftime(strptime(lsCDR_endTime,"%Y-%m-%d"),"%m")
 | fieldformat month=strftime(strptime(lsCDR_endTime,"%Y-%m-%d"),"%b")
 | chart sum(lsCDR_duration) as Duration(in sec) over month

Ayn
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<search> | eval _month_num=strftime(strptime(lsCDR_endTime,"%Y-%m-%d"),"%m") | eval month=strftime(lsCDR_endTime,"%Y-%m-%d"),"%b") | stats sum(lsCDR_duration) as "Duration(in sec)" by _month_num,month | sort _month_num
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lguinn2
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How about

| eval month=strftime(strptime(lsCDR_endTime,"%Y-%m-%d"),"%m") | chart sum(lsCDR_duration) as "Duration(in sec)" over month

which gives the month as a decimal number instead of the name of the month.

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kml_uvce
Builder

but I want to show as month name in output

kamal singh bisht
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