Splunk Enterprise

Splunk URL is not correct for my Splunk Alerts

RAVISHANKAR
Explorer

Splunk URL contains only the hostname in all my Splunk alerts and it's not reproducing the correct URL instead it's just giving only the hostname.

For Ex - In my Splunk alerts it contains the URL like below;

http://hostname:8000/app/search/

But it should be 

http://hostname.domain.com/app/search

What could be the cause?

Thanks


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livehybrid
SplunkTrust
SplunkTrust

Hi @RAVISHANKAR 

You need to set the value of 'hostname' in local/alert_actions.conf under the email stanza:

[email]
hostname = http://hostname.domain.com

Check out https://community.splunk.com/t5/Alerting/Is-there-a-way-to-modify-alert-url-results-url-in-email-ale... for more info

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arughra
Observer

Not sure why its not mentioned anywhere but if you're trying to modify the splunk url for an integration(eg. alert to pagerduty)  , I found that I had to modify the command field in pagerduty_incidents app to remove `results_link=%results.url%`

should be :

/etc/apps/pagerduty_incidents/local/alert_actions.conf

[pagerduty]
command = sendalert $action_name$ results_file="$results.file$"
hostname = http://hostname.domain.com

 

 

 

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livehybrid
SplunkTrust
SplunkTrust

Hi @RAVISHANKAR 

You need to set the value of 'hostname' in local/alert_actions.conf under the email stanza:

[email]
hostname = http://hostname.domain.com

Check out https://community.splunk.com/t5/Alerting/Is-there-a-way-to-modify-alert-url-results-url-in-email-ale... for more info

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RAVISHANKAR
Explorer

Thanks @livehybrid  - It works 🙂 

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