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tickscript.groupBy() function

tickscript.groupBy() is a user-contributed function maintained by the package author.

tickscript.groupBy() groups results by the _measurement column and other specified columns.

This function is comparable to Kapacitor QueryNode .groupBy.

Note: To group by time intervals, use window() or tickscript.selectWindow().

Function type signature
(<-tables: stream[A], columns: [string]) => stream[A] where A: Record

For more information, see Function type signatures.

Parameters

columns

(Required) List of columns to group by.

tables

Input data. Default is piped-forward data (<-).

Examples

Group by host and region

import "contrib/bonitoo-io/tickscript"

data
    |> tickscript.groupBy(columns: ["host", "region"])

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