topic Re: Create a failed search job in Splunk Search

Create a failed search job

inventsekar — Mon, 29 Mar 2021 23:50:20 GMT

Hi, for a testing purpose, i would like to create a failed search job.. i did search for this, but no luck.. any suggestions please

Re: Create a failed search job

richgalloway — Tue, 30 Mar 2021 00:16:24 GMT

Suggestions for what, creating a failed job or searching for one? What do you consider "failed"?

Re: Create a failed search job

bowesmana — Tue, 30 Mar 2021 03:02:12 GMT

Write a scheduled saved search with an illegal eval statement or a macro that doesn't exist? That will then run and create a job failure - is that what you wanted?

Re: Create a failed search job

inventsekar — Tue, 30 Mar 2021 14:26:35 GMT

Thanks @bowesmana .. that works fine.

@richgalloway .. i would like to run a search which will fail.

Let me give more info.. in our clustered environment, at random times, user's search queries status in JOBS say "failed", but still continuous to run for very long time.. even for weeks.

is there any way to clear these "failed jobs" please.

Re: Create a failed search job

richgalloway — Tue, 30 Mar 2021 16:32:22 GMT

@bowesmana gave a few good suggestions to create a job that will fail.

Search _internal to find failed jobs.

Kill a failed job at Activities->Jobs and then click the Stop icon for the appropriate job.