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How to get a distinct count of only unique values of a field

summitsplunk
Communicator

So I'm trying to get a distinct count of source mac addresses by device.

The srcmac gives me the mac address
The devtype gives me the type of device like Windows, Mac, Android etc.

When I run the search below it gives a count of all events, it looks like where there's both a srcmac and a devtype.

The problem is I only want to know the count of unique values for srcmac, so only unique mac addresses in this case.
How would I go about reformatting the search below to do this?

| stats dc(srcmac) by devtype
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MuS
Legend

Hi summitsplunk,

just try this:

 | stats dc(srcmac)

this will give you a distinct count of srcmac

Hope this helps ...

cheers, MuS

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