Measures

Use measures to create queries and knowledge objects.

Take a few minutes to review the measures available in Scuba. You will be working with them when you create queries. Scuba 4 includes the following default measures:

Measure

Used in

Description

Notes

Measure

Used in

Description

Notes

Count Events

  • Explorer

  • Properties

  • Flows

A simple count of events matching the query.

See Show a count of events or Show a count of actors.

Count Unique

  • Explorer

  • Properties

  • Flows

A count of unique values within a column matching the query. This measure is valid for numeric and string data. 

 

Sum

  • Explorer

  • Properties

  • Flows

The sum of the numeric values of all results returned for a query.

  • Does not work with string columns

  • When used with flow properties, Scuba sums per flow for flow IDs within the query's event filters.

Average

  • Explorer

  • Properties

  • Flows

The average (mean) value of a given parameter over the specified time period.

  • Does not work with string columns

  • When used with flow properties, Scuba averages per flow for flow IDs within the query's event filters. 

Minimum

  • Explorer

  • Properties

  • Flows

The lowest value that matched the query at any time over the specified time period.

Does not work with string columns

Maximum

  • Explorer

  • Properties

  • Flows

The highest value that matched the query at any time over the specified time period.

Does not work with string columns

Percentile

  • Explorer

  • Properties

  • Flows

The value at the selected percentile for a given parameter over the specified time period.

Does not work with string columns

First, Last

  • Explorer

  • Properties

  • Flows

The First and Last measures return the value of a given column with the smallest (First) or largest (Last) event timestamp. 

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Every

Properties

Create an actor or flow property that contains a list of values in a given column.

See Compare actor or flow properties on the fly with sets.

 

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