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Within each record in a query I have two fields, c_ip and cs_bytes which is numeric. How can I get the top 10 c_ip values for the highest sum total of the cs_bytes field? The direction I've tried is a stats sum(cs_bytes) by c_ip.

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Stephen_Sorkin
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Splunk Employee

You can search:

... | stats sum(cs_bytes) as bytes by c_ip | sort - bytes | head 10

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Stephen_Sorkin
Splunk Employee
Splunk Employee

You can search:

... | stats sum(cs_bytes) as bytes by c_ip | sort - bytes | head 10
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