topic Re: Alert not triggering in Splunk Enterprise Security

Alert not triggering

miguelangelclem — Thu, 16 Apr 2020 10:12:01 GMT

Hi all,

I have created an alert with this simple query:

index=foo host="bar" action=fail | stats count by user | search count>40

It is scheduled every hour and the trigger setting is Number of Results greater than 0

I have tried adding table and fields commands but it still doesn't work

Why could this happen?

Re: Alert not triggering

memarshall63 — Fri, 17 Apr 2020 02:00:56 GMT

What is your search time frame?
A user would have to fail 40 times within your search time frame to qualify as an alert.

Is that what you're expecting?

Re: Alert not triggering

harishalipaka — Fri, 17 Apr 2020 06:50:53 GMT

hi @miguelangelclemente

have a look into this

https://www.splunk.com/en_us/blog/tips-and-tricks/splunk-alerts-using-gmail-twitter-phone-calls-and-much-more.html

Re: Alert not triggering

miguelangelclem — Fri, 17 Apr 2020 07:23:53 GMT

Yes, I am expecting that.

I have found the problem and was the email configuration as @harishalipaka tell me. The alerts didn't appear because i had not set the action, and the email wasn't sending for a misconfiguration in server.

Thanks!