https://community.splunk.com/t5/Alerting/Best-way-to-alert-for-not-receiving-data-from-a-source/m-p/53129#M723 <P>Have you check out the DeploymentMonitor app. It ships with Splunk, but is not enabled by default.</P> <P>To enable it, go to Manager -&gt; Apps and click 'enable' for the SplunkDeploymentMonitor</P> <P>Then you can choose DeploymentMonitor in the 'Apps' menu (it will not have much data to show right away, since it works with scheduled searches). You can set up alerts for 'quiet' or 'missing' forwarders.</P> <P>Hope this helps,</P> <P>Kristian </P> Wed, 16 May 2012 19:14:36 GMT kristian_kolb 2012-05-16T19:14:36Z https://community.splunk.com/t5/Alerting/Best-way-to-alert-for-not-receiving-data-from-a-source/m-p/53127#M721 <P>Hello,</P> <P>I was think of the possible ways to alert in Splunk whe it hos not received any data for a time period ie 30mins meaning the thedevice maybe down.</P> <P>Has anybody already done this, or have any ideas?</P> Wed, 16 May 2012 14:41:01 GMT https://community.splunk.com/t5/Alerting/Best-way-to-alert-for-not-receiving-data-from-a-source/m-p/53127#M721 j666gak 2012-05-16T14:41:01Z https://community.splunk.com/t5/Alerting/Best-way-to-alert-for-not-receiving-data-from-a-source/m-p/53128#M722 <P>Check out this previous Splunkbase answer. You can create an alert based on that search. You'll just need to adjust the time to be 'age &gt; 1800' for 30 minutes.</P> <P><A href="http://splunk-base.splunk.com/answers/3181/how-do-i-alert-when-a-host-stops-sending-data">http://splunk-base.splunk.com/answers/3181/how-do-i-alert-when-a-host-stops-sending-data</A></P> <P>| metadata index=main type=hosts | eval age = now()-lastTime | where age &gt; (2*86400) | sort age d | convert ctime(lastTime) | fields age,host,lastTime</P> Wed, 16 May 2012 14:49:06 GMT https://community.splunk.com/t5/Alerting/Best-way-to-alert-for-not-receiving-data-from-a-source/m-p/53128#M722 sdaniels 2012-05-16T14:49:06Z https://community.splunk.com/t5/Alerting/Best-way-to-alert-for-not-receiving-data-from-a-source/m-p/53129#M723 <P>Have you check out the DeploymentMonitor app. It ships with Splunk, but is not enabled by default.</P> <P>To enable it, go to Manager -&gt; Apps and click 'enable' for the SplunkDeploymentMonitor</P> <P>Then you can choose DeploymentMonitor in the 'Apps' menu (it will not have much data to show right away, since it works with scheduled searches). You can set up alerts for 'quiet' or 'missing' forwarders.</P> <P>Hope this helps,</P> <P>Kristian </P> Wed, 16 May 2012 19:14:36 GMT https://community.splunk.com/t5/Alerting/Best-way-to-alert-for-not-receiving-data-from-a-source/m-p/53129#M723 kristian_kolb 2012-05-16T19:14:36Z https://community.splunk.com/t5/Alerting/Best-way-to-alert-for-not-receiving-data-from-a-source/m-p/53130#M724 <P>Note that as of version 5, DeploymentMonitor has to be downloaded separately. This can be done through the Manager. /k</P> Wed, 09 Jan 2013 09:59:35 GMT https://community.splunk.com/t5/Alerting/Best-way-to-alert-for-not-receiving-data-from-a-source/m-p/53130#M724 kristian_kolb 2013-01-09T09:59:35Z