topic Re: Not getting Email Alert for my saved search in Alerting

Not getting Email Alert for my saved search

shreyasathavale — Fri, 25 Apr 2014 10:34:14 GMT

Hi,
Below is my saved search :

index=perfmon source="perfmon:cputime" counter="% Processor Time" earliest=-15m | stats avg(Value) as CpuUsage by role,host |where CpuUsage > 10 | join type=left max=0  host [search source="Perfmon:Process"|top limit=5 instance by host|rename instance AS Process|where (Process!="_Total" AND Process!="Idle" AND Process!="System")|fields role,CpuUsage,host,Process]

for this I am unable to get Email alert, following I have added in savedsearch.conf file

action.email = 1
action.email.inline = 1
action.email.sendresults = 1
action.email.to = myemailid@gmail.com 
alert.digest_mode = True
alert.suppress = 0
alert.track = 0
counttype = custom
cron_schedule = */15 * * * *
enableSched = 1

What is wrong need help!!!

Re: Not getting Email Alert for my saved search

MuS — Fri, 25 Apr 2014 11:54:36 GMT

Hi shreyasathavale,

Check splunkd.log and python.log for any error related to this saved search.
Check that your splunk server is allowed to send out email and/or keep in mind that if you're using a *nix server splunk expects localhost to be the sendmail server.
Also check scheduler.log for alert_action="email" to see if any alert was fired at all and if the email was triggered

hope this helps ...

cheers, MuS

Re: Not getting Email Alert for my saved search

shreyasathavale — Fri, 25 Apr 2014 13:26:17 GMT

Hi, Thanks for replying..but I am getting alert for other searches but not for this..could not fid alert_actions="email" in scheduler.log file 😞

Re: Not getting Email Alert for my saved search

MuS — Fri, 25 Apr 2014 13:39:39 GMT

did you check scheduler.log to see if this search fires alerts at all? does your search produces the expected result if you run it manually?

Re: Not getting Email Alert for my saved search

shreyasathavale — Fri, 25 Apr 2014 13:43:19 GMT

Yes, if I run it manually , it gives me the output

Re: Not getting Email Alert for my saved search

MuS — Fri, 25 Apr 2014 13:46:33 GMT

check this:

counttype =

Set the type of count for alerting.
Possible values: number of events, number of hosts, number of sources, and always.
You've set it to custom which is not listed as possible values

Re: Not getting Email Alert for my saved search

shreyasathavale — Fri, 25 Apr 2014 13:50:47 GMT

Ok, thanks.. I will try it and will update it here 🙂