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get peak values from a timechart

chadman
Path Finder

I have a chart and would like to get a total of all the peaks values on the chart. This chart calculates idle time and goes up and then drops to 0 once the machine is no longer idle. I would like to get all the peaks and add them together. Is there a way to do this in a search? Below is what my search looks like now.

sourcetype="search" host=host1* | timechart avg(idle) as "Idle Time"

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somesoni2
Revered Legend

Give this a try

sourcetype="search" host=host1* | timechart avg(idle) as "Idle Time" | eval sno=if('Idle Time'=0,1,0) | accum sno
| eventstats max("Idle Time") as max by sno | where 'Idle Time'=max | table _time "Idle Time"

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somesoni2
Revered Legend

Give this a try

sourcetype="search" host=host1* | timechart avg(idle) as "Idle Time" | eval sno=if('Idle Time'=0,1,0) | accum sno
| eventstats max("Idle Time") as max by sno | where 'Idle Time'=max | table _time "Idle Time"

chadman
Path Finder

That did it! Thanks so much, I never would have figured that out.

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sundareshr
Legend

Try this

sourcetype="search" host=host1* | timechart avg(idle) as "Idle Time" | where "Idle Time">0 | stats sum("Idle Time") as Peaks
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chadman
Path Finder

That seems to be adding all the times, not just the peaks. So if my values were:

1,2,3,4,0,0,1,2,3,0
I would see 16 with your search. I would like to see 7. That would get the sum of 4 and 3.

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sundareshr
Legend

Try this then. You can adjust the last segment to what you would consider acceptable peak.

sourcetype="search" host=host1* | timechart avg(idle) as "Idle Time" | evenstats min("Idle Time") as low | where (low/"Idle Time")>.5 | stats sum("Idle Time") as IdleTime
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chadman
Path Finder

It's still not finding the peaks and adding them. Looks like it's still just adding all the numbers.

sourcetype="search" host=host1* || table idle |eventstats max(idle) as low | where (low/'idle') > 1 | stats sum(idle) as idle

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chadman
Path Finder

Here are the values I get when I search sourcetype="search1" host=host1 | table idle
0

0

0

0

0

0

4

3

2

1

0

8

7

6

5

4

3

2

1

0

So with this search I would like to see the number 12 that adds the 2 peaks found of 8 and 4. I can't figure out to just display those peaks.

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