SearchJobs

Create, query, update, and delete search jobs in Splunk.

Select

The driver will use the Splunk APIs to process the search Id (Sid) criteria specified in the WHERE clause. The Sid column supports server-side processing for the = operator. The driver processes other search criteria client-side within the driver.

SELECT * FROM SearchJobs
SELECT * FROM SearchJobs WHERE Sid = '123456789.1234'

You can turn off the client-side execution of the query by setting SupportEnhancedSQL to false in which case any search criteria that refers to other columns will cause an error or inconsistent data.

Insert

Splunk allows inserts only when EventSearch is specified. You can insert the Custom, EarliestTime, LatestTime, Label, and StatusBuckets columns and all pseudocolumns.

INSERT Into SearchJobs (Custom, EventSearch, LatestTime, Timeout) VALUES ('custom1=test1, custom2=test2', ' from datamodel SampleModel', 'now', '60')

Update

The SearchJobs table allows updates of the Custom column only when Sid is specified.

UPDATE SearchJobs SET Custom = 'custom1=test3, custom2=test4' WHERE sid = '123456789.1234'

Delete

SearchJobs can be deleted by providing the Sid.

DELETE FROM SearchJobs WHERE Sid = '123456789.1234'

Columns


Name	Type	ReadOnly	References	Description
Sid [KEY]	String	False		The search Id number.
EventSearch	String	False		Subset of the entire search that is before any transforming commands.
Custom	String	False		Custom job property. In an INSERT operation, pass the values as a comma-separated list of pairs of keys and values.
EarliestTime	String	False		The earliest time a search job is configured to start.
LatestTime	String	False		The latest time a search job is configured to start.
CursorTime	String	True		The earliest time from which no events are later scanned. Can be used to indicate progress.
Delegate	String	True		For saved searches, specifies jobs that were started by the user. Defaults to scheduler.
DiskUsage	Long	True		The total amount of disk space used, in bytes.
DispatchState	String	True		The state of the search. Can be any of QUEUED, PARSING, RUNNING, PAUSED, FINALIZING, FAILED, or DONE.
DoneProgress	Double	True		A number between 0 and 1.0 that indicates the approximate progress of the search. doneProgress = (latestTime-cursorTime) / (latestTime-earliestTime)
DropCount	Integer	True		For real-time searches only, the number of possible events that were dropped due to the rt_queue_size (defaults to 100000).
EventAvailableCount	Integer	True		The number of events that are available for export.
EventCount	Integer	True		The number of events returned by the search.
EventFieldCount	Integer	True		The number of fields found in the search results.
EventIsStreaming	Boolean	True		Indicates if the events of this search are being streamed.
EventIsTruncated	Boolean	True		Indicates if the events of the search are not stored, making them unavailable from the events endpoint for the search.
EventPreviewableCount	Integer	True		Number of in-memory events that are not yet committed to disk.
EventSorting	String	True		Indicates if the events of this search are sorted, and in which order.
IsDone	Boolean	True		Indicates if the search has completed.
IsEventsPreviewEnabled	String	True		Indicates if the timeline_events_preview setting is enabled in limits.conf.
IsFailed	Boolean	True		Indicates if there was a fatal error executing the search. For example, invalid search string syntax.
IsFinalized	Boolean	True		Indicates if the search was finalized (stopped before completion).
IsPaused	Boolean	True		Indicates if the search is paused.
IsPreviewEnabled	Boolean	True		Indicates if previews are enabled.
IsRealTimeSearch	Boolean	True		Indicates if the search is a real-time search.
IsRemoteTimeline	Boolean	True		Indicates if the remote timeline feature is enabled.
IsSaved	Boolean	True		Indicates that the search job is saved on disk. Search artifacts are saved on disk for 7 days from the last time that the job was viewed or touched.
IsSavedSearch	Boolean	True		Indicates if this is a saved search run using the scheduler.
IsZombie	Boolean	True		Indicates if the process running the search died without finishing the search.
Keywords	String	True		All positive keywords used by this search. A positive keyword is a keyword that is not in a NOT clause.
Label	String	False		Custom name created for this search.
Messages	String	True		Errors and debug messages.
NumPreviews	Integer	True		Number of previews generated so far for this search job.
Performance	String	True		A representation of the execution costs.
Priority	Integer	True		An integer between 0-10 that indicates the search priority.
RemoteSearch	String	True		The search string that is sent to every search peer.
ReportSearch	String	True		If reporting commands are used, the reporting search.
ResultCount	Integer	True		The total number of results returned by the search. In other words, this is the subset of scanned events (represented by the ScanCount) that actually matches the search terms.
ResultIsStreaming	Boolean	True		Indicates if the final results of the search are available using streaming (for example, no transforming operations).
ResultPreviewCount	Integer	True		The number of result rows in the latest preview results.
RunDuration	Decimal	True		Time in seconds that the search took to complete.
ScanCount	Integer	True		The number of events that are scanned or read off disk.
SearchEarliestTime	Datetime	True		Specifies the earliest time for a search, as specified in the search command rather than the EarliestTime parameter. It does not snap to the indexed data time bounds for all-time searches.
SearchLatestTime	Datetime	True		Specifies the latest time for a search, as specified in the search command rather than the LatestTime parameter. It does not snap to the indexed data time bounds for all-time searches.
SearchProviders	String	True		A list of all the search peers that were contacted.
StatusBuckets	Integer	False		Maximum number of timeline buckets.
TTL	String	True		The time to live, or the time before the search job expires after it completes.

Pseudo-Columns

Pseudo column fields are used in the WHERE clause of SELECT statements and offer a more granular control over the tuples that are returned from the data source.


Name	Type	Description
SearchMode	String	Searching mode, realtime or normal. If set to realtime, the search runs over the live data. The allowed values are normal, realtime.
EnableLookups	Boolean	Indicates whether lookups should be applied to events.
AutoPause	Integer	If specified, the search job pauses after this many seconds of inactivity. (0 means never autopause.)
AutoCancel	Integer	If specified, the job automatically cancels after this many seconds of inactivity. (0 means never autocancel.)
AdhocSearchLevel	Integer	Specify a search mode. Use one of the following search modes: verbose, fast, or smart. The allowed values are verbose, fast, smart.
ForceBundleReplication	Boolean	Specifies whether this search should cause (and wait depending on the value of SyncBundleReplication) for bundle synchronization with all search peers.
IndexEarliest	String	Specify a time string. Sets the earliest inclusive time bounds for the search, based on the index time bounds.
IndexLatest	String	Specify a time string. Sets the latest exclusive time bounds for the search, based on the index time bounds.
IndexedRealtime	Boolean	Indicates whether or not to use the indexed-realtime mode for real-time searches.
IndexedRealtimeOffset	Integer	Sets disk sync delay for indexed real-time search (seconds).
MaxCount	Integer	The number of events that can be accessible in any given status bucket.
MaxTime	Integer	Comma-separated list of (possibly wildcarded) servers from which raw events should be pulled.
Namespace	String	The application namespace in which to restrict searches.
Now	String	Specify a time string to set the absolute time used for any relative time specifier in the search. Defaults to the current system time. You can specify a relative time modifier for this parameter. For example, specify +2d to specify the current time plus two days.
ReduceFrequency	Integer	Determines how frequently to run the MapReduce reduce phase on accumulated map values.
ReloadMacros	Boolean	Specifies whether to reload macro definitions from the configuration file.
RemoteServerList	Integer	The number of seconds to run this search before finalizing. Specify 0 to never finalize.
ReplaySpeed	Integer	Indicate a real-time search replay speed factor. For example, 1 indicates normal speed, 0.5 indicates half of normal speed, and 2 indicates twice as fast as normal.
ReplayStartTime	String	Relative wall-clock start time for the replay.
ReplayEndTime	String	Relative end time for the replay clock. The replay stops when the clock time reaches this time.
ReuseMaxSecondsAgo	Integer	Specifies the number of seconds ago to check when an identical search is started and return the search Id of the job instead of starting a new job.
RequiredField	String	Adds a required field to the search.
RealTimeBlocking	Boolean	For a real-time search, indicates if the indexer blocks if the queue for this search is full.
RealTimeIndexFilter	Boolean	For a real-time search, indicates if the indexer prefilters events.
RealTimeMaxBlockSecs	Integer	For a real-time search with RealTimeBlocking set to true, the maximum time to block. Specify 0 to indicate no limit.
RealTimeQueueSize	Integer	For a real-time search, the queue size (in events) that the indexer should use for this search.
Timeout	Integer	The number of seconds to keep this search after processing has stopped.
SyncBundleReplication	String	Specifies whether this search should wait for bundle replication to complete.