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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