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How to search for empty logfiles?

gmhp
New Member

Is there a search that will warn me of a logfile that is 0 bytes and is not updating?

TIA.

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gfreitas
Builder

Hi gmhp, You can schedule an alert to run a search like "source=" for the last 30 minutes and triger the alert if number of results is equals to 0.

Hope this helps!

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