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Stumped on basic stats to return a unique identifier from the slowest event by action

Cuyose
Builder

So the concept is ridiculously simple, however I am having a monumental brain fart.

I want to generate a table with 3 columns : method, maxduration, guid

I only want to have as many rows as there are unique methods, and return the guid of that event with the max duration returned.

example of what I want

get,23000,GUID4295690
put,2243,GUID211233
post,24321,GUID8986

However the number of unique methods can change based on my base search.

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tiagofbmm
Influencer

Hey

You can use dedup to dedup your http methods.

But i suspect that this is not the solely thing you want.

You want the max duration per http method. So I would go for

your search | stats max(duration) as max duration, values(GID) AS GUID by http_method

That would give you a table of of the guids .

If you just want the guid that has max duration, do yoursearch | eventstats max(duration) as max_duration by http_method | where duration=max_duration | table max_duration, THIS, http_method

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Cuyose
Builder

Ugh, I was making it more complicated than it needed to be in my head.

| eventstats max(DurationMS) as maxduration by method
| where DurationMS=maxduration
|table maxduration method guid

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tiagofbmm
Influencer

Please if the answer I gave you solved your issue, accept and upvote that answer

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tiagofbmm
Influencer

Hey

You can use dedup to dedup your http methods.

But i suspect that this is not the solely thing you want.

You want the max duration per http method. So I would go for

your search | stats max(duration) as max duration, values(GID) AS GUID by http_method

That would give you a table of of the guids .

If you just want the guid that has max duration, do yoursearch | eventstats max(duration) as max_duration by http_method | where duration=max_duration | table max_duration, THIS, http_method

Cuyose
Builder

ha, i shoulda refreshed before I added my answer, thanks!

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