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How to correlate fields from two different searches?

SaamerS
New Member

Thanks in advance.

I have events from two different sources:

The first source (let's call it Source A) has the following fields in its events:
1. Name of job
2. Parent job

Source B:
1. Name of Job (Same as source A, but could be parent or child)
2. runTime

The run-time of the parent jobs can be broken down by the run-times of its child, but the correlation between parent and child can only be found in the first source.

I am stumped by this because the information is from two different sources. Any help will be appreciated!

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somesoni2
Revered Legend

Assuming you want to chart runtime of one parent job at a time . Try something like this:

source="B" [search source="A" parentJob="ParentJobNameYouWantPieChartFor" | stats count by jobName | table jobName]
| stats sum(runTime) as runTime by jobName

Other assumptions:

  • You can search source A using source="A" and source B using source="B"
  • On source="A", field names are jobNameand parentJob
  • On source="B", field names are jobNameand runTime

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somesoni2
Revered Legend

Assuming you want to chart runtime of one parent job at a time . Try something like this:

source="B" [search source="A" parentJob="ParentJobNameYouWantPieChartFor" | stats count by jobName | table jobName]
| stats sum(runTime) as runTime by jobName

Other assumptions:

  • You can search source A using source="A" and source B using source="B"
  • On source="A", field names are jobNameand parentJob
  • On source="B", field names are jobNameand runTime
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SaamerS
New Member

@richgalloway
I would like to create a pie chart of how the children run-times breakdown the parent's run-time

@xpac
One parent, multiple children relationship. Children can't have children jobs.

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xpac
SplunkTrust
SplunkTrust

Is this a single level relation?
Like, do all jobs belong to some parent job, and that's it? Or do some jobs have child jobs, and those have child jobs, and so on?

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richgalloway
SplunkTrust
SplunkTrust

What is your question? What is your desired output?

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