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How to create an eval column in a table that says "yes" or "no" if the value in another column has changed from the previous row?

sjanwity
Communicator

I have a table which stores updates done on a database (see my previous questions for more details). I want to create a column which basically tells me if a column in a row has changed from the previous row. For example:

KEY    |     VALUE |    UPDATED?
abc    |     2     |    NO
abc    |     2     |    NO
abc    |     3     |    YES
def    |     4     |    NO
def    |     5     |   YES
def    |     5     |   NO

The UPDATED? column should default to 'NO' or empty at the start of every new key, however the key could be a compound of 2 or more different columns. Is this possible?

1 Solution

gkanapathy
Splunk Employee
Splunk Employee
... | streamstats window=2 current=t global=f
         first(VALUE) as prev
         last(VALUE) as curr
      by KEY
    | eval UPDATED = if(prev==curr,"NO","YES")

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gkanapathy
Splunk Employee
Splunk Employee
... | streamstats window=2 current=t global=f
         first(VALUE) as prev
         last(VALUE) as curr
      by KEY
    | eval UPDATED = if(prev==curr,"NO","YES")

martin_mueller
SplunkTrust
SplunkTrust

You can group by multiple fields, yeah - just like you do in stats.

martin_mueller
SplunkTrust
SplunkTrust

The streamstats walks over your events looking at two events at the same time, the "current" one and the previous one, grouped by KEY. As it walks along it creates two fields prev and curr that store the previous and current value of VALUE.

Using that, the eval can compare the two and produce YES or NO.

sjanwity
Communicator

the key is actually a compound of 3 columns. Do I just add them in?

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sjanwity
Communicator

Could you provide an explanation please to what each command (roughly) is doing?

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