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Possible incorrect lookup statement in Splunk App for AWS

imarks004
Path Finder

I am not seeing certain dashboard panels load data in the Splunk App for AWS and I believe it is related to a bad lookup. The lookup is lookup regions.csv region OUTPUT label as region. I do not believe you can rename (AS) the output name back to the original source field name. If I do lookup regions.csv region OUTPUT label as new_region it works or lookup regions.csv region OUTPUT label | rename label AS region it works. Should this lookup work as-is or is it a bug?

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pchen_splunk
Splunk Employee
Splunk Employee

Hi, please try the following SQL in AWS app to see if an result. It uses the regions.csv as lookup. In my Splunk 6.3, it works. If you see any error pops, please post the error message here and the version of your splunk, as well as the content in /etc/apps/splunk_app_aws/lookups/regions.csv.

`aws-config-resources(*, *, "AWS::EC2::Volume")`
| join resourceId type="outer" [search earliest=-1d `aws-description-snapshot($accountId$, $region$)`
| rename volume_id as resourceId, id as snapshotId] 
| eval snapTime=strptime(start_time, "%Y-%m-%dT%T") 
| eval diff=round((now()-snapTime)/86400,0) 
| where NOT (diff>0 AND diff<30) 
| sort -diff
| fillnull value="N/A"
| table resourceId, region, configuration.size, configuration.volumeType, configuration.state, snapshotId,start_time, diff
| lookup regions.csv region OUTPUT label as region
| rename resourceId as ID, region as Region, configuration.size as "Size (GB)", configuration.volumeType as Type, configuration.state as State, snapshotId as "Snapshot ID", start_time as "Latest Snapshot", diff as "Snapshot Age (days)"
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imarks004
Path Finder

So no error, just the same behavior where region does not get populated. I am still running Splunk 6.2.2 (build 255606).

Example where no results come back.
index=aws sourcetype="aws:config" | lookup regions.csv region OUTPUT label as region | stats count by region

Example with the expected results.
index=aws sourcetype="aws:config" | lookup regions.csv region OUTPUT label as aa_region | stats count by aa_region

splunk_app_aws/lookups/regions.csv
region,location,lat,lon,label
ap-northeast-1,Tokyo,35.41,139.42,"Asia Pacific (Tokyo)"
ap-southeast-1,Singapore,1.37,103.8,"Asia Pacific (Singapore)"
ap-southeast-2,Sydney,-33.86,151.2,"Asia Pacific (Sydney)"
eu-central-1,Frankfurt,50.11,8.68,"EU (Frankfurt)"
eu-west-1,Ireland,53,-8,"EU (Ireland)"
sa-east-1,Sao Paulo,-23.34,-46.38,"South America (Sao Paulo)"
us-east-1,Virginia,38.13,-78.45,"US East (N. Virginia)"
us-west-1,California,41.48,-120.53,"US West (N. California)"
us-west-2,Oregon,46.15,-123.88,"US West (Oregon)"

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czhang_splunk
Splunk Employee
Splunk Employee

Hi, thank you for the feedback! I have tested it on both 6.2.2 and 6.2.7. It works on 6.2.7, but broken on 6.2.2 😞
So I would say it is a bug on 6.2.2

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