Hi @ekenne06, at first, you have to understand how much time takes your search and choose a relative time period and schedule, e.g. if it takes 2 minutes to be executed, you can schedule your execution frequency overy 5 minutes. I usually use as minor time for my alerts 5 minutes because using less time is unless: to schedule an alert every minute having a reaction time of 5-10 minutes. About the time-frame ir related to the schedule frequency: if the alert is scheduled every 5 minutes, it has a time frame of 5 minutes. At the end (but probably it should be the first thing!), verify if your hardware resources are sufficient for the volumes that you have to manage, so, if you have too long execution times for your alert, maybe there's a resources problems . In other words, every search takes a CPU and release it only when finished, so how many CPUs have your Indexers? hown many scheduled searches there are on your Indexers? how many users uses your Splunk? You can use the Monitoring Console to understand if you system is correctly dimensioned. For this reason, don't use real-time search because it takes a CPU and doesn't never release it. Ciao. Giuseppe
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