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Is realtime alert a feature with Splunk Cloud?

sbgoldberg13
Explorer

Is realtime alert a feature with Splunk Cloud? I go to save a search as an alert and it defaults to a scheduled search, and there's no option to select realtime.

Thanks.

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amiracle
Splunk Employee
Splunk Employee

Real-time search is disabled by default in Splunk Cloud. If you want it enabled, please contact support and they can get it enabled. Once enabled, please make sure you limit which users can run real-time searches since it will have an impact on all users when these searches are run.

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amiracle
Splunk Employee
Splunk Employee

Real-time search is disabled by default in Splunk Cloud. If you want it enabled, please contact support and they can get it enabled. Once enabled, please make sure you limit which users can run real-time searches since it will have an impact on all users when these searches are run.

sbgoldberg13
Explorer

Awesome... Thanks!

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woodcock
Esteemed Legend

There is almost never a valid use-case for Real-Time. If there is, the output should be something like Phantom that can respond in a fully automated way. If this is for humans, just don't

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sbgoldberg13
Explorer

What's your recommendation for wanting to be alerted near real-time on events meeting trigger thresholds? Thanks.

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woodcock
Esteemed Legend

For "near real-time" run a scheduled search every 15-minutes. The overhead on this is trivial compared to real-time which locks 1 CPU core on the search head and EVERY INDEXER. It is horrible.

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sbgoldberg13
Explorer

@woodcock

Got it. Thanks.

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