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How can I group similar fields and count by field?

YTKme
Engager

I was wondering if is possible to group / filter based on a single field. Below is a field called user_agent for browsers. I wanted to group similar browser type (Chrome, Firefox, Safari, etc), and count a total of each browser by date.

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/43.0.2357.134 Safari/537.36
Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.11; rv%3A54.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/54.0
Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_12_6) AppleWebKit/603.3.8 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/10.1.2 Safari/603.3.8
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/59.0.3071.115 Safari/537.36
Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_12_6) AppleWebKit/603.3.8 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/10.1.2 Safari/603.3.8
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/59.0.3071.115 Safari/537.36
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64; rv%3A54.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/54.0
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/59.0.3071.115 Safari/537.36
Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_12_6) AppleWebKit/603.3.8 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/10.1.2 Safari/603.3.8
Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_12_6) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/59.0.3071.115 Safari/537.36
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/59.0.3071.115 Safari/537.36
Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_11_6) AppleWebKit/603.3.8 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/10.1.2 Safari/603.3.8
Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.11; rv%3A54.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/54.0
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/59.0.3071.115 Safari/537.36
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/59.0.3071.115 Safari/537.36
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/59.0.3071.115 Safari/537.36
Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.12; rv%3A54.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/54.0
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/59.0.3071.115 Safari/537.36
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/59.0.3071.115 Safari/537.36
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv%3A38.0; GomezAgent 3.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/38.0
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/60.0.3112.90 Safari/537.36
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64; Trident/7.0; rv%3A11.0) like Gecko
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64; Trident/7.0; Touch; rv%3A11.0) like Gecko
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.3; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/59.0.3071.115 Safari/537.36
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/51.0.2704.79 Safari/537.36 Edge/14.14393
Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_11_6) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/60.0.3112.90 Safari/537.36
Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_12_6) AppleWebKit/603.3.8 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/10.1.2 Safari/603.3.8
Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_11_6) AppleWebKit/602.1.50 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/10.0 Safari/602.1.50
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/59.0.3071.115 Safari/537.36
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/59.0.3071.115 Safari/537.36
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/59.0.3071.115 Safari/537.36
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/59.0.3071.115 Safari/537.36
Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.10; rv%3A54.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/54.0
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/59.0.3071.115 Safari/537.36
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64; Trident/7.0; Touch; rv%3A11.0) like Gecko
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/43.0.2357.134 Safari/537.36
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/60.0.3112.90 Safari/537.36
Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_12_6) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/56.0.2924.76 Safari/537.36
Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_12_6) AppleWebKit/603.3.8 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/10.1.2 Safari/603.3.8
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1 Solution

adonio
Ultra Champion

try this:
your search ... |stats count(eval(like(user_agent,"%Chrome%"))) AS Chrome, count(eval(like(user_agent,"%Safari%"))) AS Safari, count(eval(like(user_agent,"%Firefox%"))) AS Firefox
screenshot:
alt text

hope it helps

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somesoni2
Revered Legend

Try like this

your base search with field _time and user_agent
| rex field=user_agent "(?<Browser>Chrome\/\d+|Firefox\/\d+|Version\/[\d+\.]+\d+\sSafari)" 
| timechart span=1d count by Browser
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adonio
Ultra Champion

try this:
your search ... |stats count(eval(like(user_agent,"%Chrome%"))) AS Chrome, count(eval(like(user_agent,"%Safari%"))) AS Safari, count(eval(like(user_agent,"%Firefox%"))) AS Firefox
screenshot:
alt text

hope it helps

YTKme
Engager

kind of a follow up question, when i try to put it in a visualization bar graph, it plotted the first column at the different axis than the rest of the columns, is there any way to plot all columns on the same axis on a graph?

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adonio
Ultra Champion

try to add by .... something
i added ... | by host and the results looks fine

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YTKme
Engager

that works, thank you very much for the help

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YTKme
Engager

this works, got the results i wanted, thanks a lot

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