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Simple stats conditional for alert

mikeely
Path Finder

I've set up a simple search for flapping interfaces on our switches, looks like so:

 LINEPROTO-5-UPDOWN: Line protocol on Interface changed state to | stats count by host

What I'd like to do is get an alert using a conditional ... stats count by host > 5 in fifteen minutes or something like that. When I try this out it returns no data:

 LINEPROTO-5-UPDOWN: Line protocol on Interface changed state to | stats count by host > 5

How do I get from there to where I want to be?

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gkanapathy
Splunk Employee
Splunk Employee
LINEPROTO-5-UPDOWN: Line protocol on Interface changed state to | stats count by host | where count > 5

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gkanapathy
Splunk Employee
Splunk Employee
LINEPROTO-5-UPDOWN: Line protocol on Interface changed state to | stats count by host | where count > 5

mikeely
Path Finder

One would think I could have tried that myself but I've apparently got too many hats on today to be any good at one thing. Thanks!

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gkanapathy
Splunk Employee
Splunk Employee

sorry, should be count > 5, not host. editing to fix.

mikeely
Path Finder

It looks like it should work but still "No results found" which is strange, when I take out the where clause, there are a couple values above five.

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