From the course: Splunk Core Certified User (SPLK-1001) Cert Prep

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Module overview

Module overview

So, in the previous module, we discussed Splunk search language, and then we went ahead and discussed some important commands like the fields command, the table and rename command, the sort command, and the dedup command. So in this module, we are going to continue our discussion of Splunk commands with basic transforming commands. So these are commands that you can apply on your data to transform the data into statistics tables that you can also use for visualizations. We are going to start the module by discussing an overview of transforming commands. After that, we are going to see one of the most important transforming commands that's used in Splunk to calculate statistics. That is the stats command. Now, the stats command can be used in association with multiple types of functions. So we're going to go ahead and look at the count function of the stats command. We're going to discuss the distinct count function. We are going to discuss the sum and average functions, list and…

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