head()

Returns a limited number of events, starting with the oldest. This function is equivalent to the command-line head tool.

Parameter	Type	Required	Default	Description
`limit`	number	false	200	The maximum number of events to return. The maximum allowed is 10000.

Select the 10 oldest with loglevel=ERROR
humio
```
loglevel=ERROR | head(10)
```
Select the 100 oldest events and group them by loglevel
humio
```
head(limit=100) | groupby(loglevel)
```