Deployment Architecture

Splunk DB Connect: Why did my dbmon-tail input to fetch data from a SQL query stop tailing data after 1 day?

xbbj3nj
Path Finder

Hi,

I have setup a dbmon-tail to fetch data from a SQL query every 15 minutes. It works as expected for a day until night, and suddenly the next day it stops tailing data.

Select * from ArcUnion {{WHERE $rising_column$ > ?}}

In the interval I have set as 15m.

Can you please tell me what's the issue here?

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karabsze
Path Finder

Have you also tried to change the interval to cron expression ?

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vincenteous
Communicator

Does your dbx.log report anything related to an error? You may want to check that log instead of splunkd.log to start the troubleshoot process.

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rickalmva
New Member

the "Rising Column" Timegenerated, is it like (or is) Unix Epoch, ever increasing or it is time of day, resetting to a lower value nightly ? Remember the query is looking for records where the value of Timegenerated is > (greater than) any value seen before.

Just checking the simple things

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xbbj3nj
Path Finder

Rickamva,
Thanks for the response.
Timegenerated coloumn is ever increasing value, its a unix timestamp field which keeps on changing at any point of time.

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mzorzi
Splunk Employee
Splunk Employee

try to use the full jdk installation from Oracle.

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xbbj3nj
Path Finder

what do you meany by that ? you want me upgrade the DBX app ?

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PPape
Contributor

Could you please paste your inputs.conf and did you check your splunkd.log for errors?

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xbbj3nj
Path Finder

Hi ,

Below is my inputs.conf...

[dbmon-tail://Essmon_wnpcpdbeso01/ESO_DB_wnpcpdbeso01]
host = wnpcpdbeso01
index = eso
interval = 15m
output.format = mkv
output.timestamp = 1
output.timestamp.column = Timegenerated
query = Select * from ArcUnion {{WHERE $rising_column$ > ?}}
table = ESO_DB_wtpcpdbeso04
tail.rising.column = Timegenerated
disabled = 0

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