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max ​

The max aggregation function finds the maximum value across the group.

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

Syntax ​

max( Expression )

Arguments ​

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

Results ​

Returns the maximum value of Expression across the group.

Numeric values are considered before alpha or alphanumeric values.

Example ​

This example summarizes the maximum traffic, in bytes, for each source address:

dataset="cribl_search_sample" dataSource="vpcflowlogs" 
| summarize maxBytes=max(bytes) by srcaddr