There are very, Very, VERY good reasons that your admin has wisely taken away Real-Time, including:
1: Any real-time anything locks 1 core on EVERY Indexer and Your Search-Head. This does not scale.
2: You don't need it. If you cannot react to the alert in ~1s, a short-window regular search is just as effective.
3: There is pipeline latency in getting events into Splunk and a real-time search may search for your event before it has even arrived on the indexer and make for many false-negatives.
Despite what all of the marketing and training says, SPLUNK IS *NOT* A REAL-TIME PRODUCT!
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