topic Re: How to handle gracefully "No Results Found" in Splunk Search

How to handle gracefully "No Results Found"

splunking1t — Tue, 22 May 2018 20:23:07 GMT

Hello,
I've the below query. I wanted to know when there're no errors, instead of showing "No Results Found", how can I show a customized message to the user.
My Query:
index=index sourcetype="sourcetype" SqlTable=* TotalError>0
| chart sum(Errors) as Errors , sum(IfClause) as ClauseErrors by SqlTable

Note: "TotalError" is a calculated field that provides me a sum of "Errors+IfClause". Is there a way to show desired text on output apart from uploading a CSV file?

Re: How to handle gracefully "No Results Found"

MuS — Tue, 22 May 2018 20:38:10 GMT

Hi splunking1t,

take a look at this answer https://answers.splunk.com/answers/176466/how-to-use-eval-if-there-is-no-result-from-the-bas-1.html where I explain it in detail how this can be done.

Hope this helps ...

cheers, MuS

Re: How to handle gracefully "No Results Found"

somesoni2 — Tue, 22 May 2018 21:18:05 GMT

Another option is using the appendpipe

index=index sourcetype="sourcetype" SqlTable=* TotalError>0
| chart sum(Errors) as Errors , sum(IfClause) as ClauseErrors by SqlTable
| appendpipe [| stats count | where count=0 | eval message="Your Custom Message Here" | table message
| rename COMMENT as "The appendpipe will add a row with your custom message if search above returns nothing(count=0)"  ]

Re: How to handle gracefully "No Results Found"

niketn — Tue, 22 May 2018 21:30:45 GMT

@splunking1t, get the Splunk Dashboard Examples app from Splunkbase and check out Null Result Swapper example, to show your custom message in case no result is found by the search query.

https://answers.splunk.com/answers/595248/timechart-with-no-data-gives-no-results-found.html