Alerting

Email Alert not not working as expected

geoisaac
New Member

Hi I was trying to create alerts from Splunk. But it was not working as expected. For example below is how the log looks like in Splunk.

Hi I was trying to create email alerts from splunk log. I setup the alert and email is also triggering, but the problem is that I am not getting the mail as expected.

2020-03-18T17:04:27,335+0100 ERROR
[http-nio-10.96.106.134-8084-exec-6]
c.n.c.controller.ErrorController -
Message = Extraction process failed.
ExceptionMessage = The date
223345.990.2 cannot be parsed. The pattern is: YYYY-MM-DD. ExceptionClass
= DateParseException. ExceptionId = fb04d08a-db10-40ee-97a4-d2934f5a55da

host = xxxx.oneadr.net source =
/xxx/logs/ninjainst/microservices/xxxx/TokenHandler/TokenHandler-app.log
sourcetype = xxxx_app

This is what I configured in my splunk for getting mails.

"The alert condition for '$name$' was
triggered on $trigger_date$, where
there is a pattern ERROR in the log.

====================

====================

Host Name: $result.host$.

Source File: $result.source$.

Message: $result.Message$.

Exception Message:
$result.ExceptionMessage$.

ExceptionClass:
$result.ExceptionClass$.

ExceptionId: $result.ExceptionId$"

But I am getting mail as below,few fields are not populating. Any idea about this

The alert condition for '768_Alert'
was triggered on March 18, 2020, where

there is a pattern ERROR in the log.

==================== Host Name: xxxx.oneadr.net. Source File:
/xxx/logs/ninjainst/microservices/xxxx/TokenHandler/TokenHandler-app.log.
Message: . Exception Message: .
ExceptionClass: . ExceptionId:

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manjunathmeti
Champion

Does fields Message, ExceptionMessage, ExceptionClass and ExceptionId contains any values in your index?

Add table command to your base query and check if values are coming for these fields.

<your_alert_search> | table Message, ExceptionMessage, ExceptionClass and ExceptionId 

If not you need to extract them from _raw data using rex.

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