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