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How to search and calculate stats on the outages for business transactions?

hereissat
New Member

Hello

I'm interested in finding the outages for my business service. Here is how it works:

  • I have a log file that logs the request / response for a web service. These request / response messages have a field called correlationID
  • I have already correlated the request / response by the correlation ID (via stats)
  • Based on this correlation, I derive a field called "status" as follows:
  • If the response contains the word "Tech Exception", status="Technical Exception"
  • If the response contains the word successful, status="Successful"

Here is how my stats output table looks:

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What I would like to get is:
- Every 2 consecutive "Technical Exceptions" is the start of an outage.
- The outage ends only after the status becomes Successful

I would like to calculate the outages for my service.
Could someone please help me derive a search for this problem?

Thanks for your time.

Regards
Sathish

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alacercogitatus
SplunkTrust
SplunkTrust

A transaction might work, I haven't tested this theory yet.

... <your_search_to_make_table> | transaction startswith="status=Technical*" endswith="Successful" | where eventcount > 2

This should return all of the events that start with Technical Exception and ends with Successful, and then filters out those to only have event count more than 2 ( 2 TE and 1 Successful). As an added bonus, you will have duration as a field, which would show you the duration in seconds of the outage.

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