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fillnull not working

logloganathan
Motivator

I have a query
base query | stats count by ABC | fillnull

but i am getting "no result"

instead of this, i want to display ABC count as "zero"

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kmaron
Motivator

Try this - from here: https://answers.splunk.com/answers/467823/if-there-are-no-results-found-how-do-i-get-my-sear.html

base query | stats count by ABC
 | appendpipe [ stats count | eval "NoResults"="0"  | where count=0 |table "NoResults"]

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skoelpin
SplunkTrust
SplunkTrust

Try this

base query 
| append [|makeresults | eval count=""]
| stats count by ABC
|eval count=if(isnotnull(count),0,'count')
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logloganathan
Motivator

Thanks for your help..still same result when i use this query

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skoelpin
SplunkTrust
SplunkTrust

Works on mine..

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kmaron
Motivator

Try this - from here: https://answers.splunk.com/answers/467823/if-there-are-no-results-found-how-do-i-get-my-sear.html

base query | stats count by ABC
 | appendpipe [ stats count | eval "NoResults"="0"  | where count=0 |table "NoResults"]
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logloganathan
Motivator

Awesome...i tried this query and its working fine..

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FrankVl
Ultra Champion

I don't entirely follow what you're trying to achieve, but the purpose of fillnull is to populate empty fields with a null value, not to generate results when there are none. When the stats command returns 0 results, there is nothing to apply "fillnull" on.

If you can elaborate a bit more what you want to achieve (and if possible show some sample data and expected outcomes) we can try and help you find a solution that does work.

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logloganathan
Motivator

stats command displaying "no result found" but i need value zero to be displayed

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p_gurav
Champion

can you try :

 | stats count AS abc_count by ABC | fillnull abc_count value=0
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logloganathan
Motivator

still i am getting the same result

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p_gurav
Champion

logloganathan
Motivator

yes..could you please modify and provide the query

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p_gurav
Champion

Can you share whole query? Is ABC field exist?

logloganathan
Motivator

yes..it exist..please consider ABC is name of error

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