Splunk Search

Using subsearches to get highest value

markthompson
Builder

Hello,
I have a search that tables certain values from my data fields, although i wish to create a new field on all events called Maximum that gets the latest value of a field called max and another called min

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mzorzi
Splunk Employee
Splunk Employee

You can use eventstats:

index=_internal | eventstats max(date_second) AS MAX min(date_second) as MIN | table date_second,MAX,MIN

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mzorzi
Splunk Employee
Splunk Employee

You can use eventstats:

index=_internal | eventstats max(date_second) AS MAX min(date_second) as MIN | table date_second,MAX,MIN

markthompson
Builder

Hi mzorzi,

Thanks for your response.

I used eventstats but I also wanted to get values from the search and table them as well.
Do you know how?

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MuS
SplunkTrust
SplunkTrust

Could you provide the search and if possible some sample data?

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