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Count number of occurrences in more than one field

tnkoehn
Path Finder

I have two fields, Inbound and Outbound. Each of these fields can contain a group (sometimes they're null). I need to get a count of the groups if they match a specific regex (i.e. must start with ATT, MCI or QST). The problem is that a valid group can be in either field, and certain groups can be both an Inbound and Outbound group. Below is a small example of some events:

Inbound   Outbound
OMA01002  QST_0960
ATT_0002  QST_0965
OMA01000  QST_0960
ATT_0004
ATT_0119  ATT_0002 
MCI_0023 
QST_0960  ATT_0407
          ATT_0119
ATT_0004  RG17

As you can see in the example ATT_0002, ATT_0119 and QST_0960 can be an Inbound or Outbound group. But I don't care about what group it is, I only care about the counts for each group. So the results I need are:

Group      Count
ATT_0002   2
ATT_0004   2
ATT_0119   2
ATT_0407   1
MCI_0023   1
QST_0960   3
QST_0965   1

I'm not sure how to do this or if it's possible without two searches. Below is a simplified search that is kind of a starting point.

search * | fields Inbound Outbound
         | where match(Inbound, "^(ATT|MCI|QST)") OR match(Outbound, "^(ATT|MCI|QST)") 
         | do amazing counting stuff here

Hope this makes sense. Thanks for any help.

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gkanapathy
Splunk Employee
Splunk Employee
... | eval Group=mvappend(Inbound,Outbound) | stats count by Group

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gkanapathy
Splunk Employee
Splunk Employee
... | eval Group=mvappend(Inbound,Outbound) | stats count by Group

tnkoehn
Path Finder

So simple. You guys make me feel like an idiot, but it's precisely what I need. Thanks so much!

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surekhasplunk
Communicator

Hi @gkanapthy, and @tnkoehn

I have similar requirement but instead of | where match(Inbound, "^(ATT|MCI|QST)") OR match(Outbound, "^(ATT|MCI|QST)")
i have
| where match(Inbound, "abc") OR match(Outbound, "def")
now how should i achieve this

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