https://community.splunk.com/t5/Alerting/Using-REST-API-to-search-and-send-an-email-if-there-is-a-result/m-p/289807#M5324 <P>Hi all,</P> <P>I am trying to create a shell script periodically with crontab to run a Splunk search query, and if there are any results/events found in the search query, it will send an email alert with the crontab. </P> <P>I need some guidance on achieving that as right now, i am new to writing a bash script to run on Splunk. I am using Splunk Free with no alert functions.</P> <P>Any help will be appreciated! Thank you so much <span class="lia-unicode-emoji" title=":slightly_smiling_face:">🙂</span></P> Mon, 19 Feb 2018 08:25:12 GMT 5plunked 2018-02-19T08:25:12Z https://community.splunk.com/t5/Alerting/Using-REST-API-to-search-and-send-an-email-if-there-is-a-result/m-p/289807#M5324 <P>Hi all,</P> <P>I am trying to create a shell script periodically with crontab to run a Splunk search query, and if there are any results/events found in the search query, it will send an email alert with the crontab. </P> <P>I need some guidance on achieving that as right now, i am new to writing a bash script to run on Splunk. I am using Splunk Free with no alert functions.</P> <P>Any help will be appreciated! Thank you so much <span class="lia-unicode-emoji" title=":slightly_smiling_face:">🙂</span></P> Mon, 19 Feb 2018 08:25:12 GMT https://community.splunk.com/t5/Alerting/Using-REST-API-to-search-and-send-an-email-if-there-is-a-result/m-p/289807#M5324 5plunked 2018-02-19T08:25:12Z