Splunk's 'stats' and 'tstats' operations can cause events to be dropped unexpectedly.The problem occurs when there are empty fields on the right side of the 'by' clause.To mitigate this, the 'fillnull' command can be used to fill empty fields with a default value.For datamodels and 'tstats', it is important to ensure that all fields on the right side are guaranteed to be present.