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sum

The sum aggregation function calculates the sum of Expression across the group.

Use this function with the summarize, eventstats, and timestats operators.

Syntax

    sum( Expression )

Arguments

  • Expression: Expression used for aggregation calculation. Wildcards are not supported for field names.

Results

Returns the sum value of Expression across the group.

Example

This example sums up the total number of packets sent to each combination of destination address and destination port:

dataset="cribl_search_sample" 
| summarize totalPackets=sum(packets) by dstaddr,dstport