Bin

Cortex XDR XQL bin stage enables grouping events by quantity or time.

Synopsis

Quantity

bin <field> bins = <number>

Time Span

bin <field> span = <time> timeshift = <epoch time>

Description

The

bin

stage enables you to group events by quantity or time span. The most common use case is for timecharts.

You can add the

bin

stage to your queries using two different formats depending on whether you are grouping events by quantity or time span. Currently, the

bin

stage only supported using the equal sign (

) operator in your queries without any boolean operators (

and

When you group events of a particular field by quantity, the

bin

stage is used with

bins

to define how to divide the events.

When you group events of a particular field by time, the

bin

stage is used with

span = <time>

, where

<time>

is a combination of a number and time suffix. Set one time suffix from the list of available options listed in the table below. In addition, you can define a particular start time for grouping the events in your query according to the Unix epoch time by setting

timeshift = <epoch time>

. Yet, this is optional. The query still runs without defining the epoch time. If no

timeshift = <epoch time>

is set, the query runs according to last time set in the log.

When you group events by quantity, the

<field>

in the

bin

stage must be a number, and when you group by time, the

<field>

must be a date type. Otherwise, your query will fail.

Time Suffixes

Time Suffix	Description
MS	milliseconds
S	seconds
M	minutes
H	hours
D	days
MO	months
Y	years

The time suffix is not case sensitive.

Examples

Quantity Example

Return a maximum of 1,000

xdr_data

records with the events of the

action_total_upload

field grouped by 50MB. Records with the

action_total_upload

value set to 0 or null are not included in the results.

dataset = xdr_data
| filter action_total_upload != 0 and action_total_upload != null 
| bin action_total_upload bins = 50 
| limit 1000

Time Span Example

Return a maximum of 1,000

xdr_data

records with the events of the

_time

field grouped by 1-hour increments starting from the epoch time 1615353499.

dataset = xdr_data 
| bin _time span = 1h timeshift = 1615353499 
| limit 1000

Document:Cortex XDR™ XQL Language Reference

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