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min
min(numericExpression)
Description
The min function returns the minimum of the values within a numeric column. It
is often used with match to get the minimum value within each
group in the data.
Param data types
NUMBER
Return type
NUMBER
Code Samples
Example
Find all the events where target.ip is not empty. For all the events that
match on principal.ip, store the minimum of metadata.event_timestamp.seconds
in a variable called min_seconds.
target.ip != ""
match:
principal.ip
outcome:
$min_seconds = min(metadata.event_timestamp.seconds)
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Last updated 2025-07-14 UTC.
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