Splunk Core Certified Advanced Power User Practice Test

The feature that sets eventstats apart from stats is that eventstats saves results to new fields for later use. This functionality allows users to calculate statistics across different events and then pass these aggregated values into the existing event context without affecting the original data.

With eventstats, you can perform computations like averages or sums and store those results directly into new fields within each event, maintaining the original event details intact. This enables further searches or analysis that may need to consider both the raw event data and the calculated statistics.

In contrast, the stats command produces summarized output and generally discards the original events, providing a different structure that may not preserve the granularity of individual event data. This key distinction makes eventstats particularly useful when advanced analysis is needed, as it gives the capability to retain and leverage both core and computed data in subsequent searches or visualizations.