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Subtotals over columns generated by timechart

takemusu
Explorer

I have the following search query:

source=*Src some_filtering | ... | timechart span=5m max(ActCnt) by source

that produces results like:

time c:\log1 c:\log2 c:\log3 c:\file1 c:\file2
2014-07-03 00:00:00 2
2014-07-03 00:05:00 2 4 2 4
2014-07-03 00:10:00 1 6 2 2 2
2014-07-03 00:15:00 1
2014-07-03 00:20:00 1

My goal is to get the subtotals by columns from sources log* and file*.
As result I would need just something like this:
time LOG FILE
2014-07-03 00:00:00 2
2014-07-03 00:05:00 8 4
2014-07-03 00:10:00 9 4
2014-07-03 00:15:00 1
2014-07-03 00:20:00 1

I tried to summarize columns after timechart command using | addcoltotals and | foreach but looks like addressing auto-generated fields (that match to my log source names) isn't possible after timechart.
I cannot use sum over ActCnt field, because that would also summarize values that appear in one log (e.g. c:\log1). My goal is to get subtotals over different logs.

Thanks in advance.

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somesoni2
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Try something like this (assuming 'LOG' represent sources with string "log" in the name and 'FILE' represents sources with string "file" in the name)

source=*Src some_filtering | ... | timechart span=5m max(ActCnt) by source | addtotals fieldname=LOG *log* |  addtotals fieldname=FILE *file* | table _time LOG FILE

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somesoni2
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Try something like this (assuming 'LOG' represent sources with string "log" in the name and 'FILE' represents sources with string "file" in the name)

source=*Src some_filtering | ... | timechart span=5m max(ActCnt) by source | addtotals fieldname=LOG *log* |  addtotals fieldname=FILE *file* | table _time LOG FILE

takemusu
Explorer

Actually, found a mistake in my query. Now all results are CORRECT! Marking the answer as accepted.

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takemusu
Explorer

Thank you. It does display some subtotals. However, after comparison total numbers with not aggregated results I see differences. Will dig into that.

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