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Using the stats command

Using the stats command - Splunk Tutorial

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Using the stats command

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As we've already said a few times, the STATS command is one of the most important transforming commands in Splunk. You can use the STATS command to perform statistical calculations on the data retrieved by your search. And when you use the STATS command, it is a requirement for you to use statistic functions so there are different statistics functions that can help you to do different things using the stats command. Here we are just going to see high-level those statistics functions but we're gonna go ahead in the following sections and we discuss in detail how those work with the stats command. The first one we're gonna see here is the count function so you can use the count function to count the number of events just as we've seen in the previous slide we're using count and then we're saying by client IP that's an example of how you can use the count function with a stats command. Now you can use the count function with or without an argument so if you just say count it's just gonna…

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