Splunk Search

simplifying a (field extraction error) dashboard?

mitag
Contributor

Possible to use the results of the same search in multiple panels on the same dashboard, and with different visualizations for them? (By the "same search" I mean: run it once, present results in several places via different means.)

Reason: make it faster, use less resources.

Example:

data quality dashboard

All four panels of the above dashboard use basically the same search that checks if a field message was extracted, and reports the stats highlighting the number of events where that field is not present.

Notes:
- Field message should be present in all events; if it's not - it's a field extraction error.
- The error is not necessarily the result of a bad field extraction regex - it could also be the result of a malformed event, event breaking too soon, etc.
- The top right panel is all that is needed - yet the other panels do help - I'd like to keep them there - although not at the expense of running multiple redundant searches.

The search:

sourcetype="some_sourcetype" 
| eval "Field Extraction Error(s)" = if(isnull(message),"present","not present")
| stats sparkline count by "Field Extraction Error(s)"

Possible?

Thanks!

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richgalloway
SplunkTrust
SplunkTrust

Yes, it's possible. It's also common and recommended. Splunk calls it "post-processing" and you can read about it at https://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/8.0.3/Viz/Savedsearches#Post-process_searches_2

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richgalloway
SplunkTrust
SplunkTrust

Yes, it's possible. It's also common and recommended. Splunk calls it "post-processing" and you can read about it at https://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/8.0.3/Viz/Savedsearches#Post-process_searches_2

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