How to send alert from a dashboard

[sravani27]

Hi I want to have a feature where I click a radio button on a dashboard and it sends an alert. Also can anyone help me how to use the sendalert command with an example. thank you

[pradeepkumarg]

You should run a search on click and use sendemail command to send the email

https://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/7.1.1/SearchReference/Sendemail

[sravani27]

Thank you for the reply. I am trying to use the sendalert command as I want to test the alerting functionality of splunk. Can you please explain the diff between sendalert and sendemail?

[pradeepkumarg]

sendalert is to invoke an alert action. If you have defined one in alert_actions.conf to invoke a script.
https://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/7.1.1/SearchReference/Sendalert

sendemail is like a regular email alert