topic Can Splunk provide solutions for monitoring whether a database connection is up or not in realtime and trigger alerts in Knowledge Management https://community.splunk.com/t5/Knowledge-Management/Can-Splunk-provide-solutions-for-monitoring-whether-a-database/m-p/294833#M5182 <P>I have installed splunk enterprise and splunk db connect on top of it. It has an option for Health monitoring the connections. I want to trigger an alert email whenever my database connection is down realtime. Is it possible using Splunk db connect or any other Splunk app provides such facility. </P> Tue, 04 Jul 2017 10:13:52 GMT sudhasubramania 2017-07-04T10:13:52Z Can Splunk provide solutions for monitoring whether a database connection is up or not in realtime and trigger alerts https://community.splunk.com/t5/Knowledge-Management/Can-Splunk-provide-solutions-for-monitoring-whether-a-database/m-p/294833#M5182 <P>I have installed splunk enterprise and splunk db connect on top of it. It has an option for Health monitoring the connections. I want to trigger an alert email whenever my database connection is down realtime. Is it possible using Splunk db connect or any other Splunk app provides such facility. </P> Tue, 04 Jul 2017 10:13:52 GMT https://community.splunk.com/t5/Knowledge-Management/Can-Splunk-provide-solutions-for-monitoring-whether-a-database/m-p/294833#M5182 sudhasubramania 2017-07-04T10:13:52Z Re: Can Splunk provide solutions for monitoring whether a database connection is up or not in realtime and trigger alerts https://community.splunk.com/t5/Knowledge-Management/Can-Splunk-provide-solutions-for-monitoring-whether-a-database/m-p/294834#M5183 <P>this is not a full answer,<BR /> seen it done leveraging splunk internal logs.<BR /> i dont remember from the top of my head, but if you will look in the data, there are connections related events with good data regarding last connection, and other factors.<BR /> The group i worked with used to monitor it and alert if no data comes in to splunk -&gt; bad connection or DB down. also they tracked the connections and viewed anomalies<BR /> hope it helps</P> Tue, 04 Jul 2017 14:51:20 GMT https://community.splunk.com/t5/Knowledge-Management/Can-Splunk-provide-solutions-for-monitoring-whether-a-database/m-p/294834#M5183 adonio 2017-07-04T14:51:20Z Re: Can Splunk provide solutions for monitoring whether a database connection is up or not in realtime and trigger alerts https://community.splunk.com/t5/Knowledge-Management/Can-Splunk-provide-solutions-for-monitoring-whether-a-database/m-p/294835#M5184 <P>Thanks for the help.</P> Wed, 05 Jul 2017 04:56:05 GMT https://community.splunk.com/t5/Knowledge-Management/Can-Splunk-provide-solutions-for-monitoring-whether-a-database/m-p/294835#M5184 sudhasubramania 2017-07-05T04:56:05Z