So I am displaying a ton of events with a very long table with tons of fields (input pkt, output pkt, input octet, output octet, duration...etc) to allow a user to quickly sort by whichever field they choose fit. The problem is when I try to sort through descending order, the null field is considered greater than any of the numerical values, so I have 10+ pages of straight null fields, but I don't want to exclude events with null values and I don't want to represent null fields with zero because that means two different things.
Is there a way to go about fixing the sorting issue caused by null?
My abbreviated search looks as follows
sourcetype=Alpha|table Username, IP_Address, Input_Octets|sort -Input_Octets
which outputs something like
Username | IP Address | Input_Octets
derp | 10.203.... | null
\\\20 pages of null value in input_octet
derp | 10.203.... | 1321234
derp | 10.203.... | 123441
derp | 10.203.... | 0
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