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Events in a data table can easily be grouped to facilitate analysis. The result of grouping is a data table presenting all the different row value combinations of the grouped columns. Grouping is also required in order to subsequently apply aggregation operations on apply aggregation operations to the data.

  1. Select the Group icon in the query window toolbar and the Operations Over Columns window appears with the Group option selected.

  2. Choose the time period you want to use to group the events and the arguments you want to use to define the groups.
  3. Select Group by. The result will be a row for each unique combination of arguments and time period. After grouping the data, you can repeat these steps to continue applying groups as many times as necessary. 

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  • No time-based - Select No time-based grouping at the bottom of the Every field to get all the possible combinations of the columns added as arguments. In the following example, we have grouped the data using the Server and OperatingSystem columns as arguments to get all the possible combinations of operating systems and servers.

    Note

    Be aware that the real-time data flow might interfere with this grouping option. Make sure you turn off the real-time data flow when grouping with a no time-based option, otherwise, it might not return any events.

  • Temporal - You can include a time period when you group data in order to facilitate data analysis. Select the period you want to group by in the Every field. As in the no time-based option, you will get all the unique combinations of values but in this case, every n minutes. For example, if you select 5 minutes, the table will load all the possible combinations of values in the columns specified in every 5 minutes -minute window (if you grouped your data at 8:00, you will get values at 8:05, 8:10, 8:15...).

Note that the more columns you add as arguments in a temporal grouping, the less information you will extract

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since the result will look more and more like the original table. 

Grouping time periods

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In Devo, groupings use two different time periods to group the data. After grouping the data, you will see two different tabs in the applied search operations bar, each one indicating one of the grouping period types:

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