Dashboards & Visualizations

Add a Static Baseline?

tfitzgerald15
Explorer

I'm trying to set up a dashboard panel to automatically alert me every time the number of critical or high threat hits goes over a pre-determined baseline. Right now I have that manually calculated, but I can go through and tweak that later. So, what I've got so far:

sourcetype="pan_threat" (severity="high" OR "critical") | timechart span=1h count by date | eval Baseline=1240 | stats first(Baseline) as Baseline

I expected this to chart the normal graph of count by date that I've been using, then append a line at the value of Baseline for each day. Instead, I get this.

Baseline

1 1240

Any thoughts on why it's not working?

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sdaniels
Splunk Employee
Splunk Employee

Your last command is a stats command so you get that view.

Updated:

<...> | timechart count, first(BaseLine) as Baseline by date | eval BaseLine=1240

sdaniels
Splunk Employee
Splunk Employee

This works for me, i just moved the split by date after the first(BaseLine) as Baseline. If you create a line chart you should then see the two lines you are looking for.

<...> | timechart count, first(BaseLine) as Baseline by date | eval BaseLine=1240

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tfitzgerald15
Explorer

That is a lot better. I just completely got rid of the "By Date". However, now the baseline appears broken up. Wish I could post links, I'd show you an image of what I see.

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sdaniels
Splunk Employee
Splunk Employee

Oh yeah sorry, the by date part is messing that up. I think you can move the split 'by date' to the end. I'm on my phone right now but will check this for you later.

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tfitzgerald15
Explorer

And then I get the following error.

Error in 'timechart' command: The argument 'first(baseline)' is invalid.

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