Knowledge Management

Report not displayed using summary index

mike7860
Explorer

I am able to generate events using summary indexing. In the search app I type in index=_internal search_name="index usage". The results displays the events, but actually the results that I have saved and scheduled search using summary index is in the form of a table report. Why isn't the table report getting generated? The event logs get displayed but i need the original saved report displayed.

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lguinn2
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Assume you created the summary index with the a saved search named "index usage" that looks like this:

yoursearchhere | sistats count by fx fy fz

You should not be saving your search results in the _internal index!! They should be saved in a summary index; there is a default summary index, named summary. A Splunk admin can create other summary indexes, but I will use summary for this example.

Then you retrieve the results with this search:

index=summary search_name="index usage" | stats count by fx fy fz

Note that this search ends with the same command as the first search, but substituting the stats command for the sistats.

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