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index=main sourcetype=log4j perfType="MEMORY"

In this example, we are searching for our application logs, which have the log4j sourcetype. We also select to view only memory-related events.

| eval mem_used_pc=round ((mem_used/mem_total)*1 00)

Using the eval command, we calculate the percentage of memory used from the mem_used and mem_total fields in our application log.

| eval mem_remain_pc=(100- mem_used_pc)

Using the eval command again, we calculate the remaining percentage of memory from the used percentage of memory that we just calculated in the previous step.

| timechart span=15m avg(mem_remain_pc) avg(mem_used_pc)

Using the ...

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