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Transaction substitution of multiple fields

joza89
Engager

Hi,

I would like to use transaction to calculate the difference between multiple fields.
with this...

index="test" | transaction ID startswith="start" endswith="end" | table ID Timestamp Value1 trigger duration

i get..

ID                 Timestamp            Value1        trigger            duration
123              04.11.14 15:00         44               start                60.00
                 04.11.14 15:01          30               end        

what i need is the difference of Value1 and the duration like this...

ID                 Timestamp            Value1        trigger            duration
123               04.11.14 15:00        14                                      60.00

Does anyone know how to subtract two Values in a Transaction?

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wpreston
Motivator

I would try using mvlist=Value1 inside your transaction declaration and then evaling the value you're looking for. Something like this.

index="test" 
| transaction ID startswith="start" endswith="end" mvlist=Value1 
| eval firstValue1=mvindex(Value1,0) 
| eval secondValue1=mvindex(Value1,1) 
| eval value1Diff=firstValue1 - secondValue1  
| table ID Timestamp value1Diff trigger duration

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wpreston
Motivator

I would try using mvlist=Value1 inside your transaction declaration and then evaling the value you're looking for. Something like this.

index="test" 
| transaction ID startswith="start" endswith="end" mvlist=Value1 
| eval firstValue1=mvindex(Value1,0) 
| eval secondValue1=mvindex(Value1,1) 
| eval value1Diff=firstValue1 - secondValue1  
| table ID Timestamp value1Diff trigger duration

joza89
Engager

Worked, Thank you for your help

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jeremiahc4
Builder

Have you looked at addtotals or addcoltotals? I'm not 100% sure how they react inside of a transaction though. It might work for the duration, but for Value1 it looks like you'd really need a subtractcoltotals which doesn't exist.

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joza89
Engager

Did not work, unfortunately.
i also tried eventstats sum(Value1) as sum value this gives me the sum of all Value1s and not only in that transaction.

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