Calls the named function on a field over a set of events. The result is returned in a field named _function for the selected function. This allows having the function name as a dashboard parameter.
Parameter | Type | Required | Default | Description | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
as | string | optional[a] | _function | Name of output field. | |
field | string | required | Field to extract a number from and calculate function over. | ||
function [b] | string | required | Function to run. | ||
Valid Values | |||||
avg | The avg() function | ||||
count | The count() function | ||||
max | The max() function | ||||
min | The min() function | ||||
range | The range() function | ||||
sum | The sum() function | ||||
[a] Optional parameters use their default value unless explicitly set. |
Hide omitted argument names for this function
Omitted Argument NamesThe argument name for
function
can be omitted; the following forms of this function are equivalent:logscalecallFunction("avg",field="value")
and:
logscalecallFunction(function="avg",field="value")
These examples show basic structure only.
callFunction()
Examples
Find the average bytes sent in http responses using callFunction() rather than using avg directly.
avg_sent:=callFunction("avg", field=bytes_sent)
Use a query parameter (i.e., ?function
)
to select the aggregation function for a
timeChart()
. This is useful for dashboard widgets.
timechart(function=[callFunction(?{function=count}, field=value)])