{"id":34926,"date":"2021-04-20T13:23:11","date_gmt":"2021-04-20T13:23:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/?p=34926"},"modified":"2021-04-20T13:23:11","modified_gmt":"2021-04-20T13:23:11","slug":"answer-by-warren-for-splunk-dashboard-difference-between-eval-case-and-rangemap-result","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/?p=34926","title":{"rendered":"Answer by warren for Splunk Dashboard &#8211; difference between eval case and rangemap result"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The problem you&#8217;re seeing is your <code>rangemap<\/code> has overlapping values.<\/p>\n<p>Whereas with the <code>eval<\/code> format, you&#8217;re trimming the ranges &quot;properly&quot; with <code>case<\/code>.<\/p>\n<p>Sidebar &#8211; you can make that <code>case<\/code> simpler thusly:<\/p>\n<pre><code>| eval size_group = case(SizeInMB &lt; 150, &quot;0-150 MB&quot;, SizeInMB &lt; 200, &quot;150-200 MB&quot;, SizeInMB &lt; 300, &quot;200-300 MB&quot;, SizeInMB &lt; 500, &quot;300-500 MB&quot;, SizeInMB &lt; 1000, &quot;500-1000 MB&quot;, 0=0, &quot;&gt;1000 MB&quot;) \n<\/code><\/pre>\n<p>Since <code>case<\/code> expressions stop evaluating as soon as a match is made, no need to use <code>AND<\/code> as you&#8217;d had it. And using <code>0=0<\/code> for your last possibility will <em>always<\/em> evaluate true (think of <code>default<\/code> in <code>case<\/code> statements in C or C++).<\/p>\n<p>from User warren &#8211; Stack Overflow https:\/\/stackoverflow.com\/questions\/67173540\/splunk-dashboard-difference-between-eval-case-and-rangemap-result\/67179804#67179804<br \/>\nvia <a href=\"https:\/\/ifttt.com\/?ref=da&#038;site=wordpress\">IFTTT<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The problem you&#8217;re seeing is your rangemap has overlapping values. Whereas with the eval format, you&#8217;re trimming the ranges &quot;properly&quot; with case. Sidebar &#8211; you can make that case simpler thusly: | eval size_group = case(SizeInMB &lt; 150, &quot;0-150 MB&quot;, SizeInMB &lt; 200, &quot;150-200 MB&quot;, SizeInMB &lt; 300, &quot;200-300 MB&quot;, SizeInMB &lt; 500, &quot;300-500 MB&quot;, &hellip;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/?p=34926\" class=\"more-link pen_button pen_element_default pen_icon_arrow_double\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Answer by warren for Splunk Dashboard &#8211; difference between eval case and rangemap result<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[991],"keyring_services":[],"class_list":["post-34926","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blih","tag-stackexchange"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34926","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=34926"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34926\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34927,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34926\/revisions\/34927"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34926"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34926"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34926"},{"taxonomy":"keyring_services","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fkeyring_services&post=34926"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}