SPLK-1001 Practice Question: Creating Reports, Dashboards and Visualizations
Exhibit
| rest /services/saved/searches
| search title="Daily Error Summary"
| table title, actions, is_scheduled, schedule
| spath input=actions
| table title, {}.type, is_scheduled, scheduleRefer to the exhibit. A user runs this search to get details about a saved search. The results show empty values for the actions types. What is the most likely reason?
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Correct answer & explanation
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The spath command cannot parse the multivalue actions field correctly without mvexpand.
The spath command is used incorrectly. The actions field is a multivalue field containing action objects. The spath command expects a single JSON object per event, but actions is a list. To extract action types, you might need to mvexpand first.
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Option-by-option breakdown
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The rest endpoint does not return actions data.
Why it's wrong here
The rest endpoint does return actions.
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The spath command cannot parse the multivalue actions field correctly without mvexpand.
Why this is correct
Correct. spath works on single JSON objects; actions is a list, so mvexpand is needed.
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The search title filter is too restrictive.
Why it's wrong here
The search returns a row, so title exists.
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The saved search has no actions configured.
Why it's wrong here
Even if no actions, spath would not produce empty; it would just not have values.
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