Alerting

Is there a way to ingest data via an email response?

nick405060
Motivator

Hi there,

We send out alerts via Splunk about potential phishing attacks. We'd like to have users mark the alerts after they have received and investigated them - e.g. label them as investigated, false positive, true positive, etc. Is there a way for users to label the alert directly in the email? (e.g., using voting buttons to send a response back to Splunk where the metrics are aggregated, or by having the users respond to the email)

I could create a dashboard showing all the alerts, with textboxes to enter the labels/data, but I'd like to hear ideas on a more elegant (preferably email or Slack-based) solution

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jkat54
SplunkTrust
SplunkTrust

You could build this yourself and put links in the emails that link back to api endpoints.

You’d need some unique identifier generated for each alert so you could reference the Id when your users “vote”.

Imagine a link in email like this:

<a href=“https://localhost:8089/.../yourApp/handler/_update?uniqueId=$idField$&status=closed”>Close this</a>

See https://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/7.2.3/AdvancedDev/CustomAlertScript for details on the alert action portion

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richgalloway
SplunkTrust
SplunkTrust

@nick405060 Is your problem resolved? If so, please accept an answer.

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bean545
New Member

Thanks for the information.

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jkat54
SplunkTrust
SplunkTrust

You could build this yourself and put links in the emails that link back to api endpoints.

You’d need some unique identifier generated for each alert so you could reference the Id when your users “vote”.

Imagine a link in email like this:

<a href=“https://localhost:8089/.../yourApp/handler/_update?uniqueId=$idField$&status=closed”>Close this</a>

See https://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/7.2.3/AdvancedDev/CustomAlertScript for details on the alert action portion

nick405060
Motivator

Thanks!! This definitely seems like the best option so far. A little above my skill level, but I can take a crack at it

jkat54
SplunkTrust
SplunkTrust

There’s more than a handful of partners that do this sort of development. If it’s a high stakes use case, you might consider hiring outside help.

By the way, all this was once above everyone else’s skill level too. You got what it takes to learn splunk development ;-). Just have patience!

jkat54
SplunkTrust
SplunkTrust

Did you build this out?

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nick405060
Motivator

Had to put it off a bit due to the amount of time it's going to take. On my radar for the next 4-5 weeks

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jkat54
SplunkTrust
SplunkTrust

Cool, come see us in #app-dev on slack when you’re ready!

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valiquet
Contributor

We have that but it's not recommended. SMTP is unreliable protocol.

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sdchakraborty
Contributor

Hello,

Please take a look at the below app. Not sure fully whether this will resolve your query. Very interesting use case.

https://splunkbase.splunk.com/app/1739/

Sid

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