I posted a solution to this general problem here: https://answers.splunk.com/answers/337985/throttle-alert-once-per-day.html In short, the search string I used to trigger once a day alerting when over the license limit is this: | rest splunk_server=local /services/licenser/pools | rename title AS Pool | search [rest splunk_server=local /services/licenser/groups | search is_active=1 | eval stack_id=stack_ids | fields stack_id] | eval quota=if(isnull(effective_quota),quota,effective_quota) | eval "Percentage of daily license limit used"=round(used_bytes/quota*100,2) | eval "Alert time"=strftime(now(), "%T %Z") | eval alert_count_today=[search index=_internal sourcetype=scheduler thread_id=AlertNotifier* savedsearch_name="License Limit Exceeded: Over 100% Usage" earliest=@d | where alert_actions!="" | stats count | return($count)] | where 'Percentage of daily license limit used' > 100 and alert_count_today = 0 | fields "Alert time" "Percentage of daily license limit used" For more details see the original post. ... View more