Alerting

Can we add specific text in Alerts

xvxt006
Contributor

Hi,

We would like to add alert specific contextual information. is it possible to modify each alert to have custom text in there?

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ChrisG
Splunk Employee
Splunk Employee

If you are using the alert to send an email, you can customize the email message with any text you want, as well as tokens to include variables from the search that generated the alert. See Set up alert actions > Email notification in the Alerting Manual.

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stephane_cyrill
Builder

You can create a contextual message for your alert and populate the event corresponding to the alert and the message in and index where you will go and retrieve them after.

to do that you have to buid your alert like this:

|Eval message= or < if(.......) > |table message otherfields|collect index youIndex

after setting your alert as you like where the alert will be triggered, you will have it in yourIndex with your message.

stephane_cyrill
Builder

feel free to vote and accept .....

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ChrisG
Splunk Employee
Splunk Employee

If you are using the alert to send an email, you can customize the email message with any text you want, as well as tokens to include variables from the search that generated the alert. See Set up alert actions > Email notification in the Alerting Manual.

xvxt006
Contributor

Nice...Thank you..

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stephanefotso
Motivator

Only if you want to send an email message, you can add a message

SGF
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