Alerting

alert when deleting a file

sabdulkader
New Member

how to get an alert when a file is deleted.what is the exact command for that search

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cutright_j
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What do you mean, when a file is deleted? A file on an OS? If so what OS, and what auditing do you have for that OS? A file on Splunk? Splunk event data?

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iamarkaprabha
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Hi ,
Please create the alert based on this

  index=_audit "action=search" search=*delete* 
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