OPAL Aggregate Verbs¶
Aggregate verbs establish an aggregate context: multiple input rows generate fewer, summarizing, output rows.
| Verb | Description | 
|---|---|
| Aggregates metrics across tag dimensions. | |
| Align raw metrics onto a time grid (defined by the input period) by aggregating nearby data points together. | |
| dedup collapses all rows in a dataset with the same timestamp and identical values in specified columns to one row. | |
| Generate an approximated equi-width histogram for the selected expression. | |
| Group events or intervals that are close to each other into sessions, and calculate aggregations over each session. | |
| Merge consecutive events into new events based on merge conditions. | |
| The  | |
| Rollup raw metrics into aligned metrics. | |
| Calculate statistics of columns with aggregate functions, based on (optional) grouping columns. | |
| Bin (in time) and aggregate point or interval table columns through time, based on (optional) grouping columns. | |
| Aggregate columns at every point in time, based on (optional) grouping columns. | |
| The  |