isnull()

Evaluates its sole argument and returns a bool value indicating if the argument evaluates to a null value.

[!NOTE] String values can't be null.

Syntax

isnull(Expr)

Parameters

NameTypeRequiredDescription
valuescalarThe value to check if not null.

Returns

true if value is not null and false otherwise.

xisnull(x)
""false
"x"false
parse_json("")true
parse_json("[]")false
parse_json("{}")false

Example

Find the storm events for which there's not a begin location.

StormEvents
| where isnull(BeginLat) and isnull(BeginLon)