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Website Monitoring App - No Data After Changing URLs

swhittier
Engager

I installed the Website Monitoring App v2.7 and completed the setup. After that I changed the index to point to "website_monitors" then created my first URL input. When I created the URL I set it up as 'https://sitename.com'. I didn't realize the site doesn't work if I don't include the 'www' so I removed the input and created a new one as 'https://www.sitename.com'.

  • When I look at the dashboards all I see is failed connections for the original URL.
  • If I go to Status Overview and filter it to "Include on enabled inputs" it says "No results found".
  • If I open Search and search for those 2 URLs using index = "website_monitors" I am able to find both URLs with the original failed URL generating no data since I removed it yesterday ~5:00 PM and the new URL generating since then and running right up until now.

Any idea why the dashboards aren't populating the data?

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swhittier
Engager

Some additional notes about this issue.

I ran a search 'sourcetype=web_ping' and it shows no data in the last 24 hours. So I ran a search 'index="website_monitors" url=https://www.sitename.com' to see if there was anything in the index for the new URL. I see events every 5 minutes and up to date.

Oddly, I noted that below each event it shows the following extractions:

 host = SPLINDEX source = web_ping://Site sourcetype = web_ping

If 'sourcetype=web_ping' shows here how come it doesn't show if I search only on sourcetype=web_ping?

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