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Calculate the moving average	Calculate the moving average in Flux	Moving Average	Use the `movingAverage()` or `timedMovingAverage()` functions to return the moving average of data.	10	enterprise_influxdb_v1 parent name Query with Flux Moving Average	moving_average	/influxdb/v2/query-data/flux/moving-average/

Use the movingAverage() or timedMovingAverage() functions to return the moving average of data.

data
    |> movingAverage(n: 5)

// OR

data
    |> timedMovingAverage(every: 5m, period: 10m)

movingAverage()

For each row in a table, movingAverage() returns the average of the current value and previous values where n is the total number of values used to calculate the average.

If n = 3:

Row #	Calculation
1	Insufficient number of rows
2	Insufficient number of rows
3	(Row1 + Row2 + Row3) / 3
4	(Row2 + Row3 + Row4) / 3
5	(Row3 + Row4 + Row5) / 3

{{< flex >}} {{% flex-content %}} Given the following input:

_time	_value
2020-01-01T00:01:00Z	1.0
2020-01-01T00:02:00Z	1.2
2020-01-01T00:03:00Z	1.8
2020-01-01T00:04:00Z	0.9
2020-01-01T00:05:00Z	1.4
2020-01-01T00:06:00Z	2.0
{{% /flex-content %}}
{{% flex-content %}}
The following would return:

|> movingAverage(n: 3)

_time	_value
2020-01-01T00:03:00Z	1.33
2020-01-01T00:04:00Z	1.30
2020-01-01T00:05:00Z	1.36
2020-01-01T00:06:00Z	1.43
{{% /flex-content %}}
{{< /flex >}}

timedMovingAverage()

For each row in a table, timedMovingAverage() returns the average of the current value and all row values in the previous period (duration). It returns moving averages at a frequency defined by the every parameter.

Each color in the diagram below represents a period of time used to calculate an average and the time a point representing the average is returned. If every = 30m and period = 1h:

{{< svg "/static/svgs/timed-moving-avg.svg" >}}

{{< flex >}} {{% flex-content %}} Given the following input:

_time	_value
2020-01-01T00:01:00Z	1.0
2020-01-01T00:02:00Z	1.2
2020-01-01T00:03:00Z	1.8
2020-01-01T00:04:00Z	0.9
2020-01-01T00:05:00Z	1.4
2020-01-01T00:06:00Z	2.0
{{% /flex-content %}}
{{% flex-content %}}
The following would return:

|> timedMovingAverage(every: 2m, period: 4m)

_time	_value
2020-01-01T00:02:00Z	1.000
2020-01-01T00:04:00Z	1.333
2020-01-01T00:06:00Z	1.325
2020-01-01T00:06:00Z	1.150
{{% /flex-content %}}
{{< /flex >}}