Reporting

Alert Email Subject?

diegosainz
Path Finder

Is it possible to get the host name in an alert email subject?

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inventsekar
SplunkTrust
SplunkTrust

Server tokens
Common tokens that provide details available from the Splunk platform server.

Token                    Description
$server.build$          Build number of the Splunk platform instance.
$server.serverName$       Server name hosting the Splunk platform instance.
$server.version$          Version number of the Splunk platform instance.
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mrgibbon
Contributor

Late answer I know, but try using $result.host$ 🙂

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amgoldschmidt
Explorer

I would also like to know how to do this - $host$ doesn't work for me.

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lguinn2
Legend

I think that if you use the $host$ token, it will work.

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