Influxdb: Divide result of one query by result of another query / CASE WHEN type functionality

[gvohra]

Hi there

I realise this is probably trivial to do, but I've searched the docs / GitHub issues and could not find a solution.

I would like to divide the result of one query by the result of another. I am using Grafana on top of InfluxDB, and would like to establish how many rows of data are within a certain target range.

Essentially, dividing the result from the top query by the result from the bottom query:

An alternative would be something like the following in T-SQL:

SELECT sum(CASE WHEN value < 25 THEN 1 ELSE 0 END) / count(value) from "ui.thread_switch" where $timeFilter

Does such CASE WHEN type functionality exist in InfluxDB?

I feel like this should be possible but I'm not sure how. Please could someone point me in the right direction :)? That'd be much appreciated!

Thanks,
Gaurav

[strongpauly]

+1: I agree influx should support this this kind of functionality. Without it means storing data as booleans is a lot less useful than storing it as either 0 or 1 because you want to be able to do things like:

SELECT SUM(CASE WHEN booleanValue THEN 1 ELSE 0 END) FROM measurement...

[e-dard]

See https://github.com/influxdata/influxdb/issues/3552

[phemmer]

For the CASE WHEN, I would also like to propose that in addition to CASE WHEN <expression> ... we also support CASE <value> WHEN <comparison> ....

The former CASE WHEN <expression1> THEN foo WHEN <expression2> THEN bar ELSE baz END is referred to as a "case expression" in relational databases.
Example: CASE WHEN color == 'red' THEN 3 WHEN color == 'blue' THEN 2 WHEN color == 'green' THEN 1 ELSE 0 END

The latter CASE <value> WHEN <comparison1>, <comparison2> THEN foo WHEN <comparison3> THEN bar ELSE baz END CASE is referred to as a "case statement" in relational databases.
Example: CASE color WHEN 'red' THEN 3 WHEN 'blue' THEN 2 WHEN 'green' THEN 1 ELSE 0 END CASE

[shivam-bidgely]

+1

[hackertron]

is it implemented yet !!

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[excitoon]

That would be a great feature to have.

[wasrek404]

+1