topic Re: monitoring file in Getting Data In

monitoring file

nvashish123 — Sat, 06 Nov 2010 02:33:44 GMT

Hi,

I was just wondering if Splunk can be sceheduled to monitor a file regularly, and send out alerts if this file does not get updated for a specific time period , lets say for 5 minutes. Please help me in doing so, if possible.

Thanks, Nitin.

Re: monitoring file

dwaddle — Sat, 06 Nov 2010 02:54:48 GMT

Yes, sort-of. I am assuming this file is a logfile, and there are timestamped events in it. If Splunk is indexing this log file you could schedule a saved search with a conditional alert in Splunk that does something like:

source=/path/to/my/log/file host=host.my.logfile.is.on earliest=-5m@m

And only fires the alert if the results returned are <= 0.

http://www.splunk.com/base/Documentation/latest/Admin/Setupalertsinsavedsearches.conf

Re: monitoring file

Brian_Osburn — Sat, 06 Nov 2010 02:56:24 GMT

I do that now for several of my log files...