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multivalue field not ordered properly

Dantuzzo
Loves-to-Learn Lots

Hi,

i'm trying to calculate the average events weekly by their severity and comparing the daily amount with the weekly average, i created a multivalue field but the values in the field get reordered and they don't match the rest of the data (the severity multivalue field),  I tried using mvsort() but it did not work, what did i do wrong? Thank you for any help. Query, results and expected results below:

 

index=myindex earliest=-7d@d latest=now()
    | bin _time span=1d
    | fields _time, severity
    | stats count by _time, severity
    | eventstats avg(count) as average by severity
    | eval change_percent=round(((count-average)*100)/count,0)
    | eval average=round(average,2)
    | eval change_percent=change_percent+"%"
    | table _time severity count average change_percent
    | stats values(severity) as severity, values(count) as AlertCount, values(average) as average, values(change_percent) as change_percent by _time
    | sort - _time
    | eval average=mvsort(average)
    | eval change_percent=mvsort(change_percent)
    | eval AlertCount=mvsort(AlertCount)
    | eval severity=mvsort(severity)

 

results:

 

_time
severity
AlertCount
average
change_percent
2022-12-23
High
Informational
3
8
3.25
3.67
-22%
59%
2022-12-22High13.25-225%
2022-12-21
High
Informational
3
3.25
3.67
-22%
-8%
2022-12-20High43.2519%
2022-12-19
High
Informational
Medium
1
2
5
2.00
3.25
3.67
-100%
-62%
27%

 

 

expected results:

 

_time severity AlertCount average change_percent

_time
severity
AlertCount
average
change_percent
2022-12-23
High
Informational
3
8
3.25
3.67
-22%
59%
2022-12-22High13.25-225%
2022-12-21
High
Informational
3
3.25
3.67
-8%
-22%
2022-12-20High43.2519%
2022-12-19
High
Informational
Medium
1
2
5
3.25
3.67
2.00
-225%
-83,5%
60%
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richgalloway
SplunkTrust
SplunkTrust

The values function returns values in lexicographical order with no attempts made to retain any associations to other fields.  The mvsort function won't help because it sorts the values the exact same way.

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