Alerting

Report sent after Alert is triggered - is it possible?

tengugurl
New Member

Hi there!
New user here, I am looking to simplify our troubleshooting work here at work by doing the following:

1) When an Alert is triggered (Regardless of the reason/search parameters)

2) A subsequent report will be sent after the Alert is triggered. (AKA the Search parameters one would be looking to use to better investigate the alert) 

Is this possible?

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anilchaithu
Builder

@tengugurl 

Its quite possible to sent the search parameters (caused alert) to users by choosing "send email" alert action. You can always include job fields as tokens in the email.

This is better option.

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If you don't want to use this alert actions, you can create savedsearch to search REST end point to get the results of triggered alerts and send an email with the result set.

| rest /services/alerts/fired_alerts

 

Hope this helps

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tengugurl
New Member

Hi @anilchaithu 
thanks for the thoughtful reply.
I love this idea, and have currently been adding the search parameters to the email action but was thinking of adding a separate search parameter as a follow up.

E.g Alert triggered (Your service is unfire!) separate report triggers that shows the HTTP status codes for the past hour. (Just to see how unfire it really is in comparison)

hmm I am curious on the second option you provided:

| rest /services/alerts/fired_alerts

Does this sound offbase?

Imagine I made a search that was:
index=ABC source=X |timechart count by status
then added 
| rest/services/alerts/named_alert

E.g 

index=ABC source=X |timechart count by status|rest/services/alerts/named_alert

 

I would get the email with the timechart of status when "named_alert" triggers?

 

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