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Using comparison function within mstats

eregon
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Hello fellow Splunkthiasts!

I need some insights to understand how comparison functions in mstats could be used. Consider the following query:

 

| mstats latest(cpu_metric.*) as * WHERE index="osnix_metrics" sourcetype=cpu_metric CPU=all BY host
| where pctUser > 50

 

As expected, it returns a list of hosts having latest CPU usage value higher than 50%.

However, according to mstats command reference, I can have comparison expression within WHERE clause and I'd expect it would be more efficient to rewrite the above query like this:

 

| mstats latest(cpu_metric.*) as * WHERE index="osnix_metrics" sourcetype=cpu_metric CPU=all pctUser > 50 BY host

 

Unfortunately, this doesn't return any results. I tried to refer to metric before aggregation with no luck:

 

| mstats latest(cpu_metric.*) as * WHERE index="osnix_metrics" sourcetype=cpu_metric CPU=all cpu_metric.pctUser > 50 BY host

 

What am I missing here?

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