https://community.splunk.com/t5/Alerting/How-to-send-alert-from-a-dashboard/m-p/424075#M11294 <P>You should run a search on click and use sendemail command to send the email</P> <P><A href="https://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/7.1.1/SearchReference/Sendemail">https://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/7.1.1/SearchReference/Sendemail</A></P> Mon, 09 Jul 2018 13:45:52 GMT pradeepkumarg 2018-07-09T13:45:52Z https://community.splunk.com/t5/Alerting/How-to-send-alert-from-a-dashboard/m-p/424074#M11293 <P>Hi I want to have a feature where I click a radio button on a dashboard and it sends an alert. Also can anyone help me how to use the sendalert command with an example. thank you</P> Mon, 09 Jul 2018 13:39:42 GMT https://community.splunk.com/t5/Alerting/How-to-send-alert-from-a-dashboard/m-p/424074#M11293 sravani27 2018-07-09T13:39:42Z https://community.splunk.com/t5/Alerting/How-to-send-alert-from-a-dashboard/m-p/424075#M11294 <P>You should run a search on click and use sendemail command to send the email</P> <P><A href="https://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/7.1.1/SearchReference/Sendemail">https://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/7.1.1/SearchReference/Sendemail</A></P> Mon, 09 Jul 2018 13:45:52 GMT https://community.splunk.com/t5/Alerting/How-to-send-alert-from-a-dashboard/m-p/424075#M11294 pradeepkumarg 2018-07-09T13:45:52Z https://community.splunk.com/t5/Alerting/How-to-send-alert-from-a-dashboard/m-p/424076#M11295 <P>Thank you for the reply. I am trying to use the sendalert command as I want to test the alerting functionality of splunk. Can you please explain the diff between sendalert and sendemail?</P> Mon, 09 Jul 2018 14:52:30 GMT https://community.splunk.com/t5/Alerting/How-to-send-alert-from-a-dashboard/m-p/424076#M11295 sravani27 2018-07-09T14:52:30Z https://community.splunk.com/t5/Alerting/How-to-send-alert-from-a-dashboard/m-p/424077#M11296 <P>sendalert is to invoke an alert action. If you have defined one in alert_actions.conf to invoke a script.<BR /> <A href="https://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/7.1.1/SearchReference/Sendalert">https://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/7.1.1/SearchReference/Sendalert</A></P> <P>sendemail is like a regular email alert</P> Mon, 09 Jul 2018 15:35:26 GMT https://community.splunk.com/t5/Alerting/How-to-send-alert-from-a-dashboard/m-p/424077#M11296 pradeepkumarg 2018-07-09T15:35:26Z