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Alert when status does not equal value

treinke
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I am importing a XML file. There is a few values in the XML that I would like to be alerted on. Well, I would like to be alerted when something isn't present. I want to be alerted when a field does not have another field with a value of 1.

Search:

sourcetype="report_xml" | dedup data.administration.provider-id data.administration.survey-status | chart count by data.administration.provider-id,data.administration.survey-status

Shows:

data.administration.provider-id 1   10  2   3   4   5   6   7   8   9
                          12345 1   0   0   0   0   0   1   0   1   1
                          23456 1   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   1   1
                          34567 1   0   0   0   0   0   1   0   1   1
                          45678 1   0   1   0   0   0   1   0   1   1
                          56789 0   0   0   1   0   0   0   1   1   0
                         678901 1   0   0   0   0   1   0   0   1   0
                         789012 1   1   1   0   1   1   1   1   1   0
                         890123 1   0   0   0   0   0   1   0   1   1
                         901234 1   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   1   1
                         123456 1   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   1   0
                         234567 1   0   0   0   0   0   1   0   1   1
                         345678 1   0   0   1   0   0   1   0   1   1

I would like to have an alert when the there is no survey-status=1 (like in this case provider-id=56789).

Example of the XML (added spaces around the brackets):

< ?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"? >
< monthlydata xmlns="http://www.xml.example" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" >
  < header >
    < provider-name >TEST SYSTEM< /provider-name >
    < provider-id >56789< /provider-id >
    < sample-size >321< /sample-size >
    < sample-type >1< /sample-type >
  < /header >
  < data >
    < administration >
      < provider-id >56789< /provider-id >
      < patient-id >1234567< /patient-id >
      < admission-source >2< /admission-source >
      < survey-status >5< /survey-status >
    < /administration >
    < response >
      < cleanliness >7< /cleanliness >
      < quiet >9< /quiet >
      < language-speak >1< /language-speak >
    < /response >
  < /data >
  < data >
    < administration >
      < provider-id >56789< /provider-id >
      < patient-id >1234566< /patient-id >
      < admission-source >1< /admission-source >
      < survey-status >1< /survey-status >
    < /administration >
    < response >
      < cleanliness >3< /cleanliness >
      < quiet >8< /quiet >
      < language-speak >2< /language-speak >
    < /response >
  < /data >
< /monthlydata >
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treinke
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Looks like I was able to solve it.

sourcetype="report_xml" | replace 10 with 0 in data.administration.survey-status | replace 9 with 0 in data.administration.survey-status | replace 8 with 0 in data.administration.survey-status | replace 7 with 0 in data.administration.survey-status | replace 6 with 0 in data.administration.survey-status | replace 5 with 0 in data.administration.survey-status | replace 4 with 0 in data.administration.survey-status | replace 3 with 0 in data.administration.survey-status | replace 2 with 0 in data.administration.survey-status | dedup source,data.administration.provider-id,data.administration.survey-status | stats count by data.administration.provider-id | where count=1

With this search it should return both 0 and 1 if there is any other number and a 1. With that the count would be 2. If the count is only 1, we can assume that there is no “data.administration.survey-status= 1”.

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treinke
Builder

Looks like I was able to solve it.

sourcetype="report_xml" | replace 10 with 0 in data.administration.survey-status | replace 9 with 0 in data.administration.survey-status | replace 8 with 0 in data.administration.survey-status | replace 7 with 0 in data.administration.survey-status | replace 6 with 0 in data.administration.survey-status | replace 5 with 0 in data.administration.survey-status | replace 4 with 0 in data.administration.survey-status | replace 3 with 0 in data.administration.survey-status | replace 2 with 0 in data.administration.survey-status | dedup source,data.administration.provider-id,data.administration.survey-status | stats count by data.administration.provider-id | where count=1

With this search it should return both 0 and 1 if there is any other number and a 1. With that the count would be 2. If the count is only 1, we can assume that there is no “data.administration.survey-status= 1”.

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