Alerting

Why is my alert not running?

ASISH_9
Engager

I scheduled a search Alert with cron expression="48 11 * * 1-5",Although in search it is working fine but it is not working as an alert.Is there any problem with my search query or Alert configuration?Please suggest

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DanielASG
Explorer

this Cron expression does not look right

how often did you want this to run

for every 15min use

0 0/15 * 1/1 * ? *

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kmaron
Motivator

It looks like your Cron schedule is off

Splunk has some really great documentation on how to format your Cron schedule:
http://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/6.5.2/Alert/Definescheduledalerts#Using_cron_expressions

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DanielASG
Explorer

this Cron expression does not look right

how often did you want this to run

for every 15min use

0 0/15 * 1/1 * ? *
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