https://community.splunk.com/t5/Getting-Data-In/Alert-for-syslog/m-p/108605#M22838 <P>I am trying to set an alert that notifies the admin of a situation when we dont get any data from syslog (no messages on udp:514) :</P> <P>Alerts based on the following searches seem to be failing:</P> <PRE><CODE>index=_internal (source=*/metrics.log* OR source=*\\metrics.log*) group=per_sourcetype_thruput series=syslog | eval flag= if(isnull(kb) OR len(kb)&lt;=1,"Y","N") | table flag | search flag="Y" sourcetype=syslog | timechart count span=1d | search count=0 </CODE></PRE> <P>Neither seems to be working out (there is no data written to that sourcetype which clearly one of the two ought to capture)</P> <P>Any other/ideas suggestions ? I do not want to use deployment monitor (unless IN deployment monitor, there happens to be a way to configure an alert when it sees a <STRONG>missing sourcetype/no data from sourcetype</STRONG> ) ? </P> Thu, 26 Jul 2012 00:59:07 GMT asarolkar 2012-07-26T00:59:07Z https://community.splunk.com/t5/Getting-Data-In/Alert-for-syslog/m-p/108605#M22838 <P>I am trying to set an alert that notifies the admin of a situation when we dont get any data from syslog (no messages on udp:514) :</P> <P>Alerts based on the following searches seem to be failing:</P> <PRE><CODE>index=_internal (source=*/metrics.log* OR source=*\\metrics.log*) group=per_sourcetype_thruput series=syslog | eval flag= if(isnull(kb) OR len(kb)&lt;=1,"Y","N") | table flag | search flag="Y" sourcetype=syslog | timechart count span=1d | search count=0 </CODE></PRE> <P>Neither seems to be working out (there is no data written to that sourcetype which clearly one of the two ought to capture)</P> <P>Any other/ideas suggestions ? I do not want to use deployment monitor (unless IN deployment monitor, there happens to be a way to configure an alert when it sees a <STRONG>missing sourcetype/no data from sourcetype</STRONG> ) ? </P> Thu, 26 Jul 2012 00:59:07 GMT https://community.splunk.com/t5/Getting-Data-In/Alert-for-syslog/m-p/108605#M22838 asarolkar 2012-07-26T00:59:07Z https://community.splunk.com/t5/Getting-Data-In/Alert-for-syslog/m-p/108606#M22839 <P>I think you can use a simple way to do this by searching source=udp:514</P> <P>then set alert condition when number of events equals zero</P> Thu, 26 Jul 2012 03:10:51 GMT https://community.splunk.com/t5/Getting-Data-In/Alert-for-syslog/m-p/108606#M22839 hjwang 2012-07-26T03:10:51Z