Monitoring Splunk

How to see last time index was written to.

osmusem
New Member

I am trying to see the last time an index was written to so we can monitor it and make sure logs are still being received. I haven't really found anything that works. I was able to craft the search below, but it go through all of the logs and takes forever.

index=* | bucket _time span=1d as day | stats latest(_time) as Last by index | eval Last=strftime(Last,"%H:%M:%S") | eval day=strftime(day,"%m/%d/%Y")

Any help would be appreciated.

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micahkemp
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| tstats latest(_time) WHERE index=* BY index

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richgalloway
SplunkTrust
SplunkTrust

Try this query.

| rest /services/data/indexes splunk_server=local | sort title | table title maxTime
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osmusem
New Member

This worked, too, however maxTime only displayed for one of the entries and not all of the indexes.

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micahkemp
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| tstats latest(_time) WHERE index=* BY index

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osmusem
New Member

So this got me what I was looking for. However, I modified to the search below. The last thing I need is to figure out how to setup a where statement so it will display the indexes that have a latest(_time) of greater than an hour. Eventually, this will be turned into an alert where I would receive an email if an index hasn't been updated in more than an hour. Thanks for any help!

| tstats latest(_time) as Last by index | eval Last=strftime(Last,"%H:%M:%S")

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micahkemp
Champion

Try:

| tstats latest(_time) as Last by index | eval one_hour_ago=relative_time(now(), "-1h") | where Last<one_hour_ago | eval Last=strftime(Last,"%H:%M:%S")

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