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AshimaE
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I have to calculate the change of a field(xyz) over the past 6 hours on a per host basis. I have calculated the same for a single host specified in the query itself. The code is as follows:

index=ck sourcetype=a_log host = hkv earliest=-6h | delta du as useddiff |
fillnull value=0.00 useddiff | eval velo=useddiff/15 | table time du useddiff velo

I now need to do the same for multiple hosts separately and display a timechart of all of the hosts together. Kindly tell me how the same work can be done host wise.

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somesoni2
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Give this a try

index=ck sourcetype=a_log host=* earliest=-6h 
| sort 0 _time host
| streamstats current=f window=1 values(du) as prevdu by host
| eval useddiff=coalesce(du-prevdu,0.00) 
| eval velo=useddiff/15 | table _time du useddiff velo

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somesoni2
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Give this a try

index=ck sourcetype=a_log host=* earliest=-6h 
| sort 0 _time host
| streamstats current=f window=1 values(du) as prevdu by host
| eval useddiff=coalesce(du-prevdu,0.00) 
| eval velo=useddiff/15 | table _time du useddiff velo
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inventsekar
SplunkTrust
SplunkTrust

please check this -

index=ck sourcetype=a_log host = hkv earliest=-6h | delta du as useddiff |
fillnull value=0.00 useddiff | timechart eval(useddiff/15) by host

thanks and best regards,
Sekar

PS - If this or any post helped you in any way, pls consider upvoting, thanks for reading !
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AshimaE
Explorer

the problem is since I have more than 1 host and i need the difference for the same host or a zero rather than calculating a difference between the last value of the previous host and the first value of the next host

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inventsekar
SplunkTrust
SplunkTrust

maybe, instead of delta, you can give it a try for stats dc (distinct count)-

index=ck sourcetype=a_log host = hkv earliest=-6h | stats dc(du) as useddiff by host | fillnull value=0.00 useddiff | eval velo=useddiff/15| table time du useddiff velo 
thanks and best regards,
Sekar

PS - If this or any post helped you in any way, pls consider upvoting, thanks for reading !
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AshimaE
Explorer

But this defeats the purpose since I actually need the difference between the two rather consecutive rows belonging to the same host only.

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