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Why are there sum issues in splunk table?

ositaumeozulu
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splunk table not giving the accurate sum of the fields in addtotals, even when i use the stats sum function, once the nos exceed 100000, it will not sum itinnacurate result in the addtotalsinnacurate result in the addtotals

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duncangoff3
Splunk Employee
Splunk Employee

it would be a little easier to help if you included the search you used, but from what i can see its because you have a mix of number and text strings. 1234 is a number 1,234 is a string, its adding the numbers and skipping the strings.

to fix you need to either;

 

a. do your sums before adding commas

or 

b. convert you strings to numbers before doing the math
ie | eval numbers=tostring(<string_field>,"commas") | stats sum(numbers)
tonumber(<str>, <base>) .

 

Feel free to reply with your original search if you need any further help.

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ositaumeozulu
Explorer

Wow, many thanks @duncangoff3 you are awesome

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