Splunk Search

Dashboard panels with shared base search stopped working...

unitedmarsupial
Path Finder

Some years ago I've created a (beautiful!) dashboard, with multiple panels, which presented related data at different angles. Some upgrades of the Splunk-server later (currently using Splunk Enterprise 9.1.5), all of the panels -- except for the one, that shows the raw results of the base search -- stopped working...

The common base-search is defined as:

 

<form version="1.1" theme="dark">
  <label>Curve Calibration Problems</label>
  <search id="common">
    <query>index=$mnemonic$
      AND sourcetype="FOO"
      ...
      | eval Curve=replace(Description, ".* curve ([^\(]+) \(.*", "\1")
    </query>
    <earliest>$range.earliest$</earliest>
    <latest>$range.latest$</latest>
  </search>

 

 And then the panels add to it like this, for one example:

 

    <panel>
      <title>Graph of count of errors for $mnemonic$</title>
      <chart>
        <search base="common">
          <query>top limit=50 Curve</query>
        </search>
     ...

 

Note, how the base search's ID is "common", which is exactly the value referred to as base.

Again, the base search itself works correctly. But, when I attempt to edit the panel now, the search-expression is shown only as just that query, that used to be added to the base:

unitedmarsupial_0-1729788449827.png

If I click on the "Run Search" link in the above window, I see, that, indeed, only that expression is searched for, predictably yielding no results.

It seems like something has changed in Splunk, how do I restore this dashboard to working order?

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ITWhisperer
SplunkTrust
SplunkTrust

Try adding a table command to your base search listing the fields you want to be used in your subsequent panels.

unitedmarsupial
Path Finder

@ITWhisperer wrote:

Try adding a table command to your base search listing the fields you want to be used in your subsequent panels.


Yes, adding "| table *" to the base-search expression, restored the panels. Could someone explain, why this quietly became necessary?

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ITWhisperer
SplunkTrust
SplunkTrust

Looking back through the documentation, back to 7.0.0 which is as far back as I can find, it has been recommended that base searches are transforming searches

https://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/7.0.0/Viz/Savedsearches#Post-process_searches_2

 

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