Alerting

Trouble Scheduling Alert With Search For Specific Time Range

theironcook
Explorer

For some reason, our network goes crazy every day from 2:30 to 2:35.
I'm trying to schedule a daily alert that will perform a search from 2:30 to 2:35 and report on that data if it's bad/slow.
I've created a daily scheduled alert that "Runs every day" at 15:00.

I then tried to specify my search with an "Advanced" time range of -30min for "Earliest" and -25min for "Latest" but Splunk doesn't like this.

How can I have an alert that is run daily that will only search for the specific time range of 2:30 - 2:35?

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HiroshiSatoh
Champion

I was able to perform an alert. What is the problem?

Cron schedule:0 15 * * *

index=* earliest=-30m@m latest =-25m@m

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HiroshiSatoh
Champion

I was able to perform an alert. What is the problem?

Cron schedule:0 15 * * *

index=* earliest=-30m@m latest =-25m@m

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theironcook
Explorer

Thank you Hiroshi,
Yes, if I use the chron syntax everything works well. The issue was when I tried to use the "Run every day of the week" option and specify a time.
But the chron syntax works perfectly. Thank you.

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