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Slack alert in Splunk 6.4 or 6.5.5

impurush
Contributor

Hello all,

I am getting the below error when I trigger alert from Slack alert app. I tried from Splunk 6.4 and 6.5.5 version also.

FATAL sendmodalert - action=slack STDERR - Unexpected error:

FATAL sendmodalert - action=slack STDERR - Alert action failed
INFO sendmodalert - action=slack - Alert action script completed in duration=127380 ms with exit code=6
WARN sendmodalert - action=slack - Alert action script returned error code=6

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impurush
Contributor

Hi,

below is my alert set up. I added to trigger mail also to verify the search is working perfectly or not, I am getting the alert mail. And I added incoming webhook configuration to my channel in the slack app. Also, I tried this webhook from my personal Splunk instance and it is working perfectly.
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bjoernjensen
Contributor

Hey,

Looks like the sendalert script went into some error state: error code=6.

Might be that the way you want to add data lets the script run into a problem (e.g. NULL values, wrong token usage, ...). Can you show us how the alert is being defined?

All the best,
Björn

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hijacob
Communicator

Hi,

did you use the slack notification alert? https://splunkbase.splunk.com/app/2878/ Maybe you this answer can solve your problem: https://answers.splunk.com/answers/351316/slack-notification-alert-how-can-i-get-the-message-1.html ?

Greetings,
Jacob

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impurush
Contributor

Hi, I tried the same app and just sending the test message itself not working. Please see the attached screenshot in one my answer below.

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