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Splunk false alerts

p_gurav
Champion

Hi,

Splunk started sending false alerts since today morning even though aler condition hasn't been triggsered. Once we re-enable alert those are working fine.
Can anybody please help what could be the reason behind this as this is become severity one issue in Splunk Production Environment?

Thanks in advance. 🙂

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rajanala
Path Finder

Any updates ?

Any recommendations on how to troubleshoot the issue of false alerts during the OS patching of the Splunk servers (Indexers/SearchHeads) ?

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renjujacob88
Path Finder

Can you please provide us more information. Is the alert configured as notable event. if that is the case ,you nee to check your throttling parameters

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woodcock
Esteemed Legend

Get a better description, get a diag file, add the bug tag to this Question, and open a Support Case.

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niketn
Legend

Which version of Splunk did it happen?

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p_gurav
Champion

Splunk 6.4.0

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p_gurav
Champion

Can somebody please help?

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harsmarvania57
Ultra Champion

If it's severity 1 then I'll suggest to raise case with splunk support.

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