Alerting

Is it possible to pass the query of an alert to a script?

mjlsnombrado
Communicator

Is it possible to pass the query of an alert to a script? I want to trigger a script via alert and at the same time I want to pass the query of the alert to the said script. Is this possible? can someone give me hints / ideas on how to do this, thanks in advance 🙂

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mstjohn_splunk
Splunk Employee
Splunk Employee

hi @mjlsnombrado

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harsmarvania57
Ultra Champion

Hi,

If you are using Custom Alert Action to fire script in your alert in that case you can use param.search_query = $search$ in alert_actions.conf which will provide search query in payload with parameter search_query

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