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Splunk ITSI Glass table data visualization issue

Namdev
Loves-to-Learn Lots

 

I have set up a distributed Splunk environment consisting of:

  • 2 Forwarders

  • 3 Indexers

  • 1 Indexer Manager (Cluster Manager)

  • 1 Deployment Server / License Manager / Monitoring Console

  • 1 Search Head

I installed Splunk ITSI following the distributed deployment guidelines.

For testing purposes, I am ingesting data directly into the Search Head using HEC.
The data is successfully indexed and visible in ITSI. I have created several services and KPIs, and the KPI values are displaying correctly within ITSI.

However, when I create a Glass Table and map those KPIs to the visualization, no data appears on the Glass Table.

What could be causing the Glass Table to not display KPI data even though the KPIs themselves are populated?

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gcusello
SplunkTrust
SplunkTrust

Hi @Namdev ,

what's the behavior: you don't have data or you see only a subset of them?

what's the search you used in the Glass table?

When I tried to display the ITSI data in a dashboard I built a lookup with the service decomposition and I used it to associate the kpi data from itsi_summary index to the services.

Ciao.

Giuseppe

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Namdev
Loves-to-Learn Lots

what's the search you used in the Glass table?

>>> I have not create any additional search query , I have created few services along with KPI.. and simple used Data source in Line chart. Expecting data should directly visible.

When I tried to display the ITSI data in a dashboard I built a lookup with the service decomposition and I used it to associate the kpi data from itsi_summary index to the services. 

>> Can you elaborate this process. 

 

Let me explain my scenario : 

I am working on a use-case development task where I have created a network hierarchy.
At the base level, I added Mumbai router, Mumbai core, Bangalore router, and Bangalore core devices with KPIs such as CPU and memory usage.
Then I created separate Mumbai and Bangalore services — the Mumbai service is associated only with Mumbai devices, and the Bangalore service only with Bangalore devices — pulling the service health score.
Finally, I created a main network service at the top level that is associated with the location services.
Now I want to showcase the separate health status along with the KPIs and also display the cumulative health score at the top level

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gcusello
SplunkTrust
SplunkTrust

Hi @Namdev ,

to work on Glass tables or dashboards you have to create a search the quesies the itsi_summary index to take the KPIs to display in the Glass Table.

But in the itsi_summary index, services are listed by serviceid and there isn't the service decomposition that you have to rebuild it using a search.

In other words, you have to run something like this (I don't know how many levels you have) to create a lookup that contains for all the services of your decomposition: serviceid and title: 

| getservice 
| fields serviceid title serv*dep*
| fillnull services_depending_on_me
| search services_depending_on_me=0
| makemv delim="serviceid=" services_depends_on
| mvexpand services_depends_on
| rex field=services_depends_on mode=sed "s/~~~.*//g"
| rename services_depends_on as stage2 title as stage1_title
| join stage2 type=left
    [| getservice
    | rename serviceid as stage2 
    | fields stage2 title services_depends_on]
| rename services_depends_on as stage3 title as stage2_title| makemv delim="serviceid=" stage3
| mvexpand stage3
| rex field=stage3 mode=sed "s/~~~.*//g"
| join stage3 type=left
    [| getservice
    | rename serviceid as stage3
    | fields stage3 title services_depends_on]
| rename services_depends_on as stage4 title as stage3_title| makemv delim="serviceid=" stage4
| mvexpand stage4
| rex field=stage4 mode=sed "s/~~~.*//g"
| join stage4 type=left
    [| getservice
    | rename serviceid as stage4
    | fields stage4 title services_depends_on]
| rename services_depends_on as stage5 title as stage4_title| makemv delim="serviceid=" stage5
| mvexpand stage5
| rex field=stage5 mode=sed "s/~~~.*//g"

 Ciao.

Giuseppe

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