topic Re: How do I make a custom alert message with variables? in Splunk Search

How do I make a custom alert message with variables?

rbrisseyii — Mon, 17 Dec 2018 16:07:53 GMT

Hello,

I have a search with several OR statements in it. Example, Microservice=this OR Microservice=that. When the search runs and emails me an alert, I currently have it set to "$result.Microservice$ with $job.resultCount$ alerts".

In the text of the email, it only returned the name of the first Microservice, but gave me a total count of both This and That's events.

I would like it to give me:
"This" had x alerts
"That" had y alerts

Any suggestions to how I can have the email alert give me totals for each Microservice? I actually have a few more Microservices in my real search, I only listed 2 above.

Thanks.

Re: How do I make a custom alert message with variables?

burwell — Mon, 17 Dec 2018 18:55:11 GMT

Hi @rbrisseyii can you share your exact search?

Re: How do I make a custom alert message with variables?

rbrisseyii — Tue, 29 Sep 2020 22:25:06 GMT

I will just provide the solution I was given through the Splunk Community Slack channel:

| eventstats count as _toemail by Microservice SiteType | eval _toemail = Microservice . " " . SiteType . " had " . _toemail . " alerts.\n" | eventstats values(_toemail) as _toemail | eval _toemail = mvjoin(_toemail, " ")

which provides the following out put in email:
microservice1 Prod had 336 alerts.
microservice2 Prod had 23 alerts.
microservice3 Prod had 5 alerts.

Re: How do I make a custom alert message with variables?

rbrisseyii — Tue, 29 Sep 2020 22:25:09 GMT

my search | eventstats count as _toemail by Microservice SiteType | eval _toemail = Microservice . " " . SiteType . " had " . _toemail . " alerts.\n" | eventstats values(_toemail) as _toemail | eval _toemail = mvjoin(_toemail, " ")

which provides the following out put in email:
microservice1 Prod had 336 alerts.
microservice2 Prod had 23 alerts.
microservice3 Prod had 5 alerts.

Re: How do I make a custom alert message with variables?

mstjohn_splunk — Mon, 17 Dec 2018 21:47:30 GMT

I'm glad you figured out an answer to your question @rbrisseyii. Would you mind accepting it so that others will know it's the correct solution?

Thanks!

Re: How do I make a custom alert message with variables?

burwell — Tue, 29 Sep 2020 22:29:42 GMT

Hi @rbrisseyii what I tend to do in this situation is

my search
| stats count by Microservice SiteType
| eval Microservice_SiteType_count = MicroService + " " + SiteType + " = " + count + "alerts"
| stats values(Microservice_Sitetype_count) as Microservice_counts

And then I use $result.Microservice_counts$ in your alert

You can format the eval however you like.

The idea is you are creating field Microservice_SiteType_count for each Microservice SiteType pair
And then finally you are looking at the values of all those pairs and you can grab it in your alert by using $result.Microservice_counts$