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accum

Description

For each event where field is a number, the accum command calculates a running total or sum of the numbers. The accumulated sum can be returned to either the same field, or a newfield that you specify.

Syntax

accum <field> [AS <newfield>]

Required arguments

field
Syntax: <string>
Description: The name of the field that you want to calculate the accumulated sum for. The field must contain numeric values.

Optional arguments

newfield
Syntax: <string>
Description: The name of a new field where you want the results placed.

Basic example

1. Create a running total of a field

This example uses the sample data from the Search Tutorial but should work with any format of Apache web access log. To try this example on your own Splunk instance, you must download the sample data and follow the instructions to get the tutorial data into Splunk. Use the time range All time when you run the search.

The following search looks for events from web access log files that were successful views of strategy games. A count of the events by each product ID is returned.

sourcetype=access_* status=200 categoryId=STRATEGY | chart count AS views by productId

The results appear on the Statistics tab and look something like this:

productId views
DB-SG-G01 1796
DC-SG-G02 1642
FS-SG-G03 1482
PZ-SG-G05 1300

You can use the accum command to generate a running total of the views and display the running total in a new field called "TotalViews".

sourcetype=access_* status=200 categoryId=STRATEGY | chart count AS views by productId | accum views as TotalViews

The results appear on the Statistics tab and look something like this:

productId views TotalViews
DB-SG-G01 1796 1796
DC-SG-G02 1642 3438
FS-SG-G03 1482 4920
PZ-SG-G05 1300 6220

See also

autoregress, delta, streamstats, trendline

Last modified on 18 July, 2020
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This documentation applies to the following versions of Splunk® Enterprise: 7.0.0, 7.0.1, 7.0.2, 7.0.3, 7.0.4, 7.0.5, 7.0.6, 7.0.7, 7.0.8, 7.0.9, 7.0.10, 7.0.11, 7.0.13, 7.1.0, 7.1.1, 7.1.2, 7.1.3, 7.1.4, 7.1.5, 7.1.6, 7.1.7, 7.1.8, 7.1.9, 7.1.10, 7.2.0, 7.2.1, 7.2.2, 7.2.3, 7.2.4, 7.2.5, 7.2.6, 7.2.7, 7.2.8, 7.2.9, 7.2.10, 7.3.0, 7.3.1, 7.3.2, 7.3.3, 7.3.4, 7.3.5, 7.3.6, 7.3.7, 7.3.8, 7.3.9, 8.0.0, 8.0.1, 8.0.2, 8.0.3, 8.0.4, 8.0.5, 8.0.6, 8.0.7, 8.0.8, 8.0.9, 8.0.10, 8.1.0, 8.1.1, 8.1.2, 8.1.3, 8.1.4, 8.1.5, 8.1.6, 8.1.7, 8.1.8, 8.1.9, 8.1.11, 8.2.0, 8.2.1, 8.2.2, 8.2.3, 8.2.4, 8.2.5, 8.2.6, 8.2.7, 8.2.8, 8.2.9, 8.2.10, 8.2.11, 8.2.12, 9.0.0, 9.0.1, 9.0.2, 9.0.3, 9.0.4, 9.0.5, 9.0.6, 9.0.7, 9.0.8, 9.0.9, 9.0.10, 9.1.0, 9.1.1, 9.1.2, 9.1.3, 9.1.4, 9.1.5, 9.1.6, 9.1.7, 9.2.0, 9.2.1, 9.2.2, 9.2.3, 9.2.4, 9.3.0, 9.3.1, 9.3.2, 8.1.10, 8.1.12, 8.1.13, 8.1.14

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