Using stats with a base query - splunk

Question

I am building a dashboard that uses a base query and then several panels use that query to display some data. A few of my panels do not show anything (No Result Found) . All of the panels that dont show any data use stats function. Here is my dashboard code -
<label>ZZ_Test</label>
<description>Test Playground</description>
<search id="mainData">
<query>
index="mydata"| eventstats max(_time) as maxTimestamp| where _time=maxTimestamp| search businessGroup IN ("*")
</query>
<earliest>$timeToken.earliest$</earliest>
<latest>$timeToken.latest$</latest>
</search>
<fieldset submitButton="false">
<input type="time" token="timeToken">
<label>timeToken</label>
<default>
<earliest>-24h#h</earliest>
<latest>now</latest>
</default>
</input>
</fieldset>
<row>
<panel>
<single>
<title>Total1</title>
<search base="mainData">
<query>stats sum("objects{}.count") as "Total"</query>
</search>
<option name="drilldown">none</option>
<option name="refresh.display">progressbar</option>
</single>
<single>
<title>Total2</title>
<search base="mainData">
<query>spath path="objects{}.count" output="Total"</query>
</search>
<option name="drilldown">none</option>
<option name="refresh.display">progressbar</option>
</single>
</panel>
</row>
</form>
Here are a couple of sample events -
[{
"businessGroup": "Sample1",
"objects": [
{
"count": 5
}
]
},
{
"businessGroup": "Sample2",
"objects": [
{
"count": 54
}
]
}
]
When i view this dashboard, i see Total2 populated, but Total1 shows no results found.
What am i missing ?

Answer 1

I suspect the stats command doesn't like field names in object format. Try renaming them to something simpler first.
<query>| rename "objects{}.count" as count | stats sum(count) as "Total"</query>
[EDIT]
Second suggestion. The "Total1" panel does not contain an spath command, unlike panel "Total2". Without spath the field being counted probably doesn't exist.