topic How to troubleshoot why a python script is running or not when triggered by an alert? in Alerting https://community.splunk.com/t5/Alerting/How-to-troubleshoot-why-a-python-script-is-running-or-not-when/m-p/128190#M2017 <P>Dear All,</P> <P>We have created some alerts and we are calling a python script when that alert gets triggered.<BR /> How to troubleshoot that script is running or not?</P> <P>In my python script we are writing a log file so that we can keep track of what the python script is doing. Sometimes its won't write anything in Log file, so we are not able to understand if the script is running or not</P> <P>Thanks<BR /> Gajanan Hiroji</P> Thu, 20 Nov 2014 16:54:57 GMT gajananh999 2014-11-20T16:54:57Z How to troubleshoot why a python script is running or not when triggered by an alert? https://community.splunk.com/t5/Alerting/How-to-troubleshoot-why-a-python-script-is-running-or-not-when/m-p/128190#M2017 <P>Dear All,</P> <P>We have created some alerts and we are calling a python script when that alert gets triggered.<BR /> How to troubleshoot that script is running or not?</P> <P>In my python script we are writing a log file so that we can keep track of what the python script is doing. Sometimes its won't write anything in Log file, so we are not able to understand if the script is running or not</P> <P>Thanks<BR /> Gajanan Hiroji</P> Thu, 20 Nov 2014 16:54:57 GMT https://community.splunk.com/t5/Alerting/How-to-troubleshoot-why-a-python-script-is-running-or-not-when/m-p/128190#M2017 gajananh999 2014-11-20T16:54:57Z Re: How to troubleshoot why a python script is running or not when triggered by an alert? https://community.splunk.com/t5/Alerting/How-to-troubleshoot-why-a-python-script-is-running-or-not-when/m-p/128191#M2018 <P>The documentation <A href="http://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/6.2.0/Alert/Configuringscriptedalerts#Troubleshoot_scripts_launched_from_an_alert">here</A> points out this wiki article on <A href="http://wiki.splunk.com/Community:TroubleshootingAlertScripts">Troubleshooting Alert Scripts</A>. Somewhat related question / answer <A href="http://answers.splunk.com/answers/30462/best-practice-logging-script-runtime-results.html">here</A>.</P> Thu, 20 Nov 2014 17:08:54 GMT https://community.splunk.com/t5/Alerting/How-to-troubleshoot-why-a-python-script-is-running-or-not-when/m-p/128191#M2018 aljohnson_splun 2014-11-20T17:08:54Z