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How to set up an alert on all search heads if any universal forwarder has not sent data for a certain amount of time?

brod_geico
Path Finder

I need to setup an alert on all search heads if any universal forwarder has not sent data in last 6 or 4 hours. The alerts have to trigger and send an email with output of missing hosts.
I have tried to use this one but it is not working.
|metadata type=hosts index=*| table host lastTime | where lastTimerelative_time(now(),"-30d@d")
| convert timeformat="%Y%m%d" ctime(lastTime) AS LastTime

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lguinn2
Legend

Well, the reason could be that the where command is looking for a "last time" of over 30 days ago - and you have a typo.

Try this

|metadata type=hosts index=*
| table host lastTime
| where lastTime < relative_time(now(),"-4h")
| eval lastTime = strftime(lastTime, "%x %X")
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