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Alert Based Off Current Event Duration

NewToSplunk1
Explorer

Goal: Being able to alert off the latest event if the event is more than 300 seconds and is not blank or "non-productive".

Here is my current search and the results: 

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Every incident is an open or a closing of an event. If the incident is blank, that signifies a closing of the previous event. If the incident has a string, that is the current open event. 

In my ideal scenario, I would alert based on any incident where I have a string value within the incident field, current duration has surpassed 300 seconds, and I don't have a value in the total duration field. 

However, when I try to add a filter for | where total duration = "", no results are returned at all.. Which I am confused about since the latest totalduration event is blank since streamstats is false...

Any help or tips greatly appreciated!

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ITWhisperer
SplunkTrust
SplunkTrust

Try this

| where isnull(TotalDuration)

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NewToSplunk1
Explorer

Thank you!!

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NewToSplunk1
Explorer

| where TotalDuration = null returns no results as well.

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ITWhisperer
SplunkTrust
SplunkTrust

Try this

| where isnull(TotalDuration)
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