Alerting

when splunk error count is more than a number

rajs115
Path Finder

Hi,

   I have a log file in splunk which reports the errors when ever something failed. Now i need to run a splunk query if a same error show up in Splunk more than 3 times in last 1 hour. If it happens i need to send an alert.

Can someone suggest me the query with time in it?

 

Thanks.

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PickleRick
SplunkTrust
SplunkTrust

Your "specification" can be interpreted in many ways 🙂

Do you just want to search for some alert and find out if it's 3 or more events? Or maybe you can have several different kinds of alerts and want to know if any single one of them occurs more than 3 times.

 

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rajs115
Path Finder

@PickleRick ,

 

   "Build failed" is what i need to check in each event logs over the last 1 hour. If its repeated more than 3 times(from 3 events) in last 1 hour i need to send an alert. I hope you get my question now 🙂 

 

Thanks.

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PickleRick
SplunkTrust
SplunkTrust

Just do your search for "Build Failed" and trigger the alert when number of results is greater than 2. Easy.

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rajs115
Path Finder

sure @PickleRick . Thank you

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