https://community.splunk.com/t5/Reporting/How-to-not-send-out-empty-report-file-when-there-is-no-data-in/m-p/14940#M197 <P>You could try using <A href="http://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/6.2.1/SearchReference/Fillnull">fillnull</A> to populate the blank report with some default data like referenced above.</P> <P>Or maybe take a look at <A href="http://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/6.2.1/SearchReference/Filldown">filldown</A> which will fill null values with the last value in the index.</P> Thu, 01 Jan 2015 02:59:12 GMT dolivasoh 2015-01-01T02:59:12Z https://community.splunk.com/t5/Reporting/How-to-not-send-out-empty-report-file-when-there-is-no-data-in/m-p/14939#M196 <P>Needs to send out reports every hour to an external entity and try to figure out how to have some default values set when there is no data for that time range instead of sending an empty report. The query is below:</P> <P>eventtypes=TIC-FW-NETSCREEN earliest="-1h@h" latest=@h | stats max(deviceclass) as DeviceClass count(_raw) AS Count last(_time) AS FirstRecord first(_time) as LastRecord | convert ctime(FirstRecord) | convert ctime(LastRecord) | outputcsv filename.csv</P> <P>Desired Output when there are no records for the search:</P> <P>DeviceClass,Count,FirstRecord,LastRecord FIREWALL,0,"01/01/1970 00:00:00","01/01/1970 00:00:00"</P> Sat, 05 Jun 2010 04:33:15 GMT https://community.splunk.com/t5/Reporting/How-to-not-send-out-empty-report-file-when-there-is-no-data-in/m-p/14939#M196 zliu 2010-06-05T04:33:15Z https://community.splunk.com/t5/Reporting/How-to-not-send-out-empty-report-file-when-there-is-no-data-in/m-p/14940#M197 <P>You could try using <A href="http://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/6.2.1/SearchReference/Fillnull">fillnull</A> to populate the blank report with some default data like referenced above.</P> <P>Or maybe take a look at <A href="http://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/6.2.1/SearchReference/Filldown">filldown</A> which will fill null values with the last value in the index.</P> Thu, 01 Jan 2015 02:59:12 GMT https://community.splunk.com/t5/Reporting/How-to-not-send-out-empty-report-file-when-there-is-no-data-in/m-p/14940#M197 dolivasoh 2015-01-01T02:59:12Z