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Working with OpenTelemetry Cumulative Histogram Bucket with Calculations

cchan
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Hi, I am new to Splunk and couldn't figure out how to work with OpenTelemetry's histogram bucket in Splunk. 

I have a basic set up of 3 buckets from OTel, with le=2000, 8000, +Inf and the bucket name is "http.server.duration_bucket".

My goal is to display the number count inside the 3 buckets for a 15min period, perform a calculations using those values, and add the calculated value as a 4th column.

I came up with this so far:

 

 

 

| mstats max("http.server.duration_bucket") chart=true WHERE "index"="metrics" span=15m BY le
| fields - _span*
| rename * AS "* /s"
| rename "_time /s" AS _time

 

 

 

But immediately I see 2 issues:

a) the 8000 bucket results are added with 2000 bucket results as well because they are recorded as cumulative histograms.

b) the values inside the bucket is always increasing, so I cannot isolate how many counts belong to 2000 bucket now vs the same bucket 15mins ago.

And I realized that I don't know how to get the right calculation and separate the buckets without using "BY le", so I cannot perform calculations from there.

So my question is:

1) Is there an example of function for displaying the real non-cumulative values in the histogram for a given period?

2) If my calculation is max(le=2000)*0.6 + max(le=8000)*0.4, how would I add that as a column to the search?

Thanks in advance!

 

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