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timechart return 0 if no results found

amitdaniel
Explorer

Hi .
I have a sourcetype = Queue and i'm sending the number of messages waiting in the queue .

index=monitoring sourcetype=Qeueue Account=azbcd ( QueueName="test123") | timechart max(MessageCount) as MessageCount span=30minute

But if the number of messages = 0 i'm not sending any data to Splunk ( Actually if i'll not find a solution i'll fix my code to send 0 but i want to avoid that )

Look at the picture you can see that when the messageCount=0 i have a "hole" in the graph .
Is there a way to add if condition or something else that will say if we don't have data put 0 ?

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Thanks ,
Amit

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p_gurav
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TISKAR
Builder

Hello,
Can you try this please,

index=monitoring sourcetype=Qeueue Account=azbcd ( QueueName="test123") | timechart max(MessageCount) as MessageCount span=30minute | fillnull value=0

Also you can use make continous command:

https://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/7.0.3/SearchReference/Makecontinuous

Regards

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p_gurav
Champion

You can use Zero option for "Null Values" in Format tab. Refer doc:
https://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/7.0.3/Viz/LineAreaCharts#Configuration_options

amitdaniel
Explorer

Thank you !

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niketn
Legend

The command equivalent for this would be | fillull value=0 to be added after the timechart command.

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