Splunk Enterprise Security

Differences on throttling times

akai
Explorer

Hello all,

Is there any difference between setting a throttle window of 1d, 24h, 1440m or 86400s?

I was told that it's better to specify it in seconds because of how the throttling system works. Like if you specify 1d, it will trigger the next day, not actual 24 hours later. 

I hope that was clear.

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livehybrid
SplunkTrust
SplunkTrust

Hi @akai 

I have never noticed that setting to 1d will only supress until midnight, from what I recall it prevents a future alert firing for 1d/24h/86400s.

If you want to be sure about this you can create a similar search with makeresults and run it regularly (e.g hourly) and then set throttle to 1d. It *should* (I believe) only fire once today, and then at the same time tomorrow!

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