Some additional notes about this issue.
I ran a search 'sourcetype=web_ping' and it shows no data in the last 24 hours. So I ran a search 'index="website_monitors" url=https://www.sitename.com' to see if there was anything in the index for the new URL. I see events every 5 minutes and up to date.
Oddly, I noted that below each event it shows the following extractions:
host = SPLINDEX source = web_ping://Site sourcetype = web_ping
If 'sourcetype=web_ping' shows here how come it doesn't show if I search only on sourcetype=web_ping?
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