Evaluation of data as it is read

[DanielBC]

Does Splunk have the ability to launch a saved search the moment a new data point is entered into the system?

My research would lead me to believe the answer is no, and that the best I could do is run a scheduled search every minute looking for the particular value I would be interested in and take action as necessary in the event it finds a new entry.

[gkanapathy · Accepted solution]

Real-time alerting is one of the major features of version 4.2, due for imminent release. This is exactly what it will be able to do. Any kind of case where you are running a search every minute to try be be alerted as soon as possible is probably better addressed with a real-time alert.

[DanielBC]

Thank you for the information, I will look into 4.2

[David]

Not being Splunk-internal, I can't say how it would trigger a scheduled search, but one of the features in 4.2 is going to be real-time alerting. It would make sense to be able to run a saved search off a real-time alert, but I'd imagine that at the least, you'd be able to run a shell script.. that then executes a saved search.