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Alert Throttle Not Working

griffins
Explorer

Hi folks,

I have a very simple alert set up that triggers if the number of results is greater than 0. I'd like to throttle the alert from triggering again for a specified time period, but the throttle seems to be ignored.

Search:
index=sample host=example_host

Schedule:
Cron - */5 * * * *

Trigger:
Number of Results > 0
Trigger Once

Throttle:
Suppress triggering for 10 minutes.

Action:
Send email.

The alert triggers with no problem; however, rather than throttling for 10 minutes, the alert gets triggered again after 5 minutes if the condition is met. It's a simple search where the trigger condition is there being any results at all. What am I doing wrong here? Any help would be greatly appreciated!

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Thulasinathan_M
Contributor

Your schedluer runs every 5 mins, it should be Cron - */10 * * * *. If you wish to run every 10 mins.

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griffins
Explorer

I don't want it to run every 10 minutes, I want the search to run every 5 minutes, but throttle for 10 minutes if the alert condition is met, and an alert is triggered.

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