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How to calculate and add missing field to source?

user93
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source A : filename,title,version,type,date
source B: filename,date

I want to compute the title field for source b and output that into my data where the file name has the same value for source A and B.

Goal:  source=b | table _time,filename,title

Where source b does not include the title in the _raw but source a has the same filename and also includes title in the _raw.

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richgalloway
SplunkTrust
SplunkTrust

Try this:

(source=A OR source=B) | stats latest(_time) as _time, latest(title) as title by filename | table _time, filename, title
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richgalloway
SplunkTrust
SplunkTrust

Try this:

(source=A OR source=B) | stats latest(_time) as _time, latest(title) as title by filename | table _time, filename, title
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If this reply helps you, Karma would be appreciated.

user93
Communicator

This works, but what I really want is for the events to become a new field in the search, because now I cannot add other fields lost to the stats pipe. For example, I want: | table _time,filename,title,version,w_day

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richgalloway
SplunkTrust
SplunkTrust

To avoid losing fields to stats, include them in stats. ... | stats latest(_time) as _time, latest(title) as title latest(version) as version, latest(w_day) as w_day by filename | ....

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If this reply helps you, Karma would be appreciated.

user93
Communicator

Thanks @richgalloway. I thought enough to do that, but my mistake was not carrying the by clause to the end. Makes sense to me now. Thank you.

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