Alerting

Splunk Cloud Triggered Alerts not working

slk9489
New Member

I am trying to get triggered alerts working in my Splunk Cloud instance but no scheduled searches seem to be working. I see the error:
ERROR SavedSearchAdminHandler - Search scheduler has not started yet

Can someone provide documentation on how to start the scheduler in Splunk Cloud? Thanks.

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slk9489
New Member

The problem was that SplunkLightForwarder was turned on. Turning this on turns off the scheduler, so that's why I saw the message of it being turned off. To fix this I disabled the SplunkLightForwarder and then restarted splunk.

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yannK
Splunk Employee
Splunk Employee

great find!
This is very tricky to find out when the lightweight forwarder app has been turned on.

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