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Mike6960
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I am trying to use an eval but there is a wildcard so I noticed this does not work. Ho can I get this to work? I tried using match or Like but I cant get it working

......count(eval(logger ="blablabla test HTTP status: 200.")) OR logger="something id * HTTP status: 200") AS Example

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manjunathmeti
Champion

If you are counting logs with status code 200, then extract status from logger and count it. You can use extracted field to count logs with other status codes also.

| rex field=logger "status:\s(?<status>[\d]+)" | stats count(eval(status=200)) AS count
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kamlesh_vaghela
SplunkTrust
SplunkTrust

@Mike6960

You can try this also.

YOUR_SEARCH | eval example= case(like(logger,"blablabla test HTTP status: 200."),1,like(logger,"something id % HTTP status: 200"),1,1=1,0) | stats sum(example) as example

Sample:

| makeresults 
| eval logger="blablabla test HTTP status: 200.|something id 1234 HTTPA status: 200|something id 1234 HTTP status: 200", logger=split(logger,"|") 
| mvexpand logger
| rename comment as "Upto this is for data generation only" 
| eval example= case(like(logger,"blablabla test HTTP status: 200."),1,like(logger,"something id % HTTP status: 200"),1,1=1,0)
| stats sum(example) as example
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nickhills
Ultra Champion

Try
|stats count(eval(like(logger,"%status: 200"))) as Example

If my comment helps, please give it a thumbs up!

shashank_24
Path Finder

This works like a charm. Thanks

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Mike6960
Path Finder

Hi, what does 'category' do ?

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nickhills
Ultra Champion

sorry - should have been logger - amended in the answer.

If my comment helps, please give it a thumbs up!
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