https://community.splunk.com/t5/Splunk-Search/How-to-set-an-alert-running-every-day-hourly/m-p/617696#M214665 <P>The alert definition menu has a dropdown for the run interval.&nbsp; The last entry in the dropdown lets you specify a cron schedule for the alert.&nbsp; This is a set of 5 numbers, number ranges, and/or number lists that tell Splunk when to run the alert.&nbsp; I won't go into a full description of cron, but you can visit <A href="https://crontab.guru" target="_blank">https://crontab.guru</A> for assistance with generating a cron schedule.</P> Wed, 19 Oct 2022 13:16:11 GMT richgalloway 2022-10-19T13:16:11Z https://community.splunk.com/t5/Splunk-Search/How-to-set-an-alert-running-every-day-hourly/m-p/617535#M214607 <P>how to set an alert running every day hourly?</P> <P>ex - if new transactions /events occur alert the user</P> Tue, 18 Oct 2022 17:43:19 GMT https://community.splunk.com/t5/Splunk-Search/How-to-set-an-alert-running-every-day-hourly/m-p/617535#M214607 wanda619 2022-10-18T17:43:19Z https://community.splunk.com/t5/Splunk-Search/How-to-set-an-alert-running-every-day-hourly/m-p/617544#M214609 <P>Please describe your use case some more, please.</P><P>The Splunk alert UI offers a dropdown to select "hourly" as a run interval.&nbsp; How does that not meet your needs?</P> Tue, 18 Oct 2022 16:08:18 GMT https://community.splunk.com/t5/Splunk-Search/How-to-set-an-alert-running-every-day-hourly/m-p/617544#M214609 richgalloway 2022-10-18T16:08:18Z https://community.splunk.com/t5/Splunk-Search/How-to-set-an-alert-running-every-day-hourly/m-p/617545#M214610 <P><a href="https://community.splunk.com/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/213957">@richgalloway</a>&nbsp;I want to set up an automated alert on the report , i guess we can use cron expression but not sure how</P> Tue, 18 Oct 2022 16:12:29 GMT https://community.splunk.com/t5/Splunk-Search/How-to-set-an-alert-running-every-day-hourly/m-p/617545#M214610 wanda619 2022-10-18T16:12:29Z https://community.splunk.com/t5/Splunk-Search/How-to-set-an-alert-running-every-day-hourly/m-p/617696#M214665 <P>The alert definition menu has a dropdown for the run interval.&nbsp; The last entry in the dropdown lets you specify a cron schedule for the alert.&nbsp; This is a set of 5 numbers, number ranges, and/or number lists that tell Splunk when to run the alert.&nbsp; I won't go into a full description of cron, but you can visit <A href="https://crontab.guru" target="_blank">https://crontab.guru</A> for assistance with generating a cron schedule.</P> Wed, 19 Oct 2022 13:16:11 GMT https://community.splunk.com/t5/Splunk-Search/How-to-set-an-alert-running-every-day-hourly/m-p/617696#M214665 richgalloway 2022-10-19T13:16:11Z