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stats command to get count of NULL values

anoopambli
Communicator

I am using a DB query to get stats count of some data from 'ISSUE' column. This column also has a lot of entries which has no value in it.

something like,

ISSUE

Event log alert

Skipped count

how do i get the NULL value (which is in between the two entries also as part of the stats count. Is there any way?

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lukejadamec
Super Champion

In your search use the fillnull command and assign a value to that field when it is null, then count that value for the field.

search issue="*" | fillnull value=null issue | stats count by issue

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JChapp23
Loves-to-Learn Lots

Is there a way to rename the NULL to display something else?

 

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lukejadamec
Super Champion

In your search use the fillnull command and assign a value to that field when it is null, then count that value for the field.

search issue="*" | fillnull value=null issue | stats count by issue

anoopambli
Communicator

awesome, that fixed it 🙂 thanks a lot.

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