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Search to Consolidate similar messages into one?

Vani_26
Path Finder

Query:
index=xxx  application_code=mobile  NOT   feature 
|stats count by code message
|sort -count
|eval message-substr(message, 1, 40)

output:

code message count
mobile-job-115 application error occured 100
mobile-app-180 application is stable 240
app-job-800 information good 34
project-job-100 system error occured 10
project-job-100    system error occured 20
project-job-100    system error occured 34
project-job-100    system error occured 23
project-job-100    system error occured 50


 expected output:

code message count
mobile-job-115 application error occured 100
mobile-app-180 application is stable 240
app-job-800 information good 34
project-job-100 system error occured 137


 i want to get my table display count as one value for similar messages like for example(system error occured) as shown above.

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PickleRick
SplunkTrust
SplunkTrust

And who says you can't do

| stats sum(count) ...

after what you already have?

But on the other hand - why not just do the substr() earlier in the pipeline?

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Vani_26
Path Finder

Hi  @PickleRick 

i tried sum(count) but its not coming.
no values are displaying under count

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PickleRick
SplunkTrust
SplunkTrust

Unless you rename the resulting column, it will be called sum(count), not count anymore.

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