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Other Tools in Stream

Along with the functions we used in this sandbox, Stream has a few other functions worth mentioning:

Sampling/Dynamic Sampling​

To count a type of event, you can use Sampling or Dynamic Sampling functions to sample every n events. Sampled events are injected with a sampled field containing a count of the number of events each one represents.

Sampling Function Dynamic Sampling Function

Suppression​

You can suppress events so that they do not enter your downstream systems. Events can be dropped or marked as suppressed with suppress=1. You can drop the events later in a Pipeline or in a destination-conditioning Pipeline.

Suppress Function

Let's practice setting up metrics using another type of data now that you've set up metrics from a log source...