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Sorting the fields based on values in a row

nsingh49
Explorer

This is my splunk query

 

index=xxxxx "searchTerm")|rex "someterm(?<errortype>)" | timechart count by
errortype span ="1w" | addcoltotals labelfield=total | fillnullvalue=TOTAL|fileds - abc,def,total

 

I am adding the total count of the errors over a week in another column named TOTAL as depicted in table below.Here A... B... are error names in alphabetical order, the values are total number of errors that occured on that day for that errortype

_time                      A....     A....     C....     D....     E....

2021-08-25       11         22      05      23      89
2021-08-26        15       45        45      13      39
2021-08-27        34       05        55       33     85
2021-08-28        56       08        65       53      09
2021-08-29         01       06        95      36       01
TOTAL                  117        86       265  158    223
I want these fields sorted by value in TOTAL row in descending order like

265   223 1 58  117  86
But i am always getting this in alphabetical order of the errortype like

A... A... B...
how can i improve this query to get the sorted result like i want?

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PickleRick
SplunkTrust
SplunkTrust

You could transpose, then sort, then transpose back.

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PickleRick
SplunkTrust
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You could transpose, then sort, then transpose back.

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nsingh49
Explorer

added this to the query this and worked like a charm

 


| addcoltotals labelfield=_time label="TOTAL"
| transpose header_field="_time" 0
| sort - TOTAL
| transpose header_field="column" 0
| rename column as _time 

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