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Search based on zero events

u_m1580
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Hi there,

I would like to create a search to alert us based on an index not ingesting any event data by basing it off any field in our index

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livehybrid
SplunkTrust
SplunkTrust

Hi @u_m1580 

I would look at using a tstats search as this will be more performant when there is data in the index.

Something simple such as:

|tstats count where index=<yourIndex>

Then you can alert where count=0, or add a | where count>0 and alert when there are no results.

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gcusello
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Hi @u_m1580 ,

you could create an alert using a simple search

index=<your_index>

 that triggers if you have no events.

If you need to check a list of hosts, it's different.

Ciao.

Giuseppe

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