Splunk Enterprise Security

Passing eval to email alert and notables

JJCO
Engager

Howdy,

I'm building out some alerting in Splunk ES, and created a new correlation search.
That is all working, but I'm unable to pass my eval as a value into email alert.


What I have:
| eval alert_message=range.":".sourcetype." log source has not checked in ".'Communicated Minutes Ago'." minutes. On index=".index.". Latest Event:".'Latest Event'
| table alert_message

Just running the search works, the table is there and looks correct.
I've tried variations of $alert_message$ with and without quotes, but the alert_message never gets passed to the email alert.
I haven't tried to generate a notable, but I'm guessing I'll have the same issue.

I feel like I'm missing something easy here...

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richgalloway
SplunkTrust
SplunkTrust

Have you tried $results.alert_message$?

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livehybrid
SplunkTrust
SplunkTrust

 Hi @JJCO 

Ensure that you correctly reference your `alert_message` using the correct token syntax. In the email alert settings, you should use `$result.alert_message$`. This assumes that `alert_message` is part of the result set.

Please let me know how you get on and consider accepting this answer or adding karma this answer if it has helped.
Regards

Will

richgalloway
SplunkTrust
SplunkTrust

Have you tried $results.alert_message$?

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If this reply helps you, Karma would be appreciated.
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