I'm accepting this as the solution since this line was the key to creating my final search as seen below. It looks for empty indexes which can be used in an alert as "When number of results is greater than 0" and "Trigger for each result" | rest splunk_server=local /services/data/indexes
| where title IN ("index1", "index2", "index3", "index4", "index5", "index6")
| table title
| rename title AS index
| join type=left index
[| tstats count where index IN ("index1", "index2", "index3", "index4", "index5", "index6") BY index]
| fillnull
| where count=0
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