Alerting

How to bulk delete alerts

responsys_cm
Builder

One of our users created a real-time search that triggers an alert every time, so there are thousands of alerts built up. Is it possible to bulk-delete them somehow? Where does the alert window pull those events from?

I saw this post:

http://splunk-base.splunk.com/answers/517/how-to-search-recent-alerts-fired-by-splunk

If I run those searches and pipe them to delete, will it clear up the alert window?

Thx.

Craig

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chimell
Motivator

Hi
Don't pipe to delete alert
just stop triggering by select throtting attribut and go to Activity > Triggered Alerts select all the alert that was triggered and delete them.
http://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/6.2.2/Alert/Reviewtriggeredalerts

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rashid47010
Communicator

hi
I have bulk of triggered alert notifications. how can I delete at once.

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johndoeqisoa
Engager

Just disabling the alert will already remove the triggered alerts...

lguinn2
Legend

I am not sure how to do what you want - but DON'T pipe to delete!! You will be deleting Splunk internal log entries, and that's not a good thing.

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