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how to set expiry time for saved scheduled search results

ramki1459
Explorer

Hello all.. i have a scheduled job which will run for every 1 hr and store results in summary index and send an email with search results. so far so good, but problem i am facing is, search results are expiring after 24 hrs which is causing data limit on my account. after some investigation i found that, if there is an email alert, splunk by default will store results for 24 hrs. so, i removed email alert and search results are expiring after 1 hr (which really solved my problem).

using above approach, since there is no email after 1 hr job runs, i don't know whether hrly jobs are running fine or not. so, i want to get an email alert (no link to search results) with expiry as 1 hr. could someone help me on how to solve this problem.

Note: i dont have permissions to change values in alert_actions.conf, savedsearches.conf .. etc

thanks in advance

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woodcock
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Read the options for dispatch.ttl in this document:

https://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/latest/Admin/Savedsearchesconf
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DalJeanis
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https://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/SplunkCloud/7.0.3/Alert/Updatealerts

See the section on "Configure triggered alert expiration"

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ramki1459
Explorer

i don't see the option which was mentioned in splunk documentation because of this "These steps apply only to alerts with the "Add to Triggered Alerts" action enabled." looks like i don't have permission to set this setting.

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