How long did it take for alerts to show up in the dashboard for you? I see them firing if I go to Activity > Triggered Alerts but I still do not see them in my Splunk App for Unix Alerts Dashboard. ... View more

I also got the "Application-specific password required" error when attempting to use my gmail as my email server. As I had 2nd factor turned on, I found that I needed to set a separate app-specific password. After discovering this existed, this is how I'd want to do it anyway, even without being forced to. That way, I don't have to put my password that I use day to day for google into the splunk settings. You can set an app password via https://myaccount.google.com/apppasswords Here is the help if you need further information. https://support.google.com/accounts/answer/185833?hl=en     ... View more

Actually, I have also faced the same issue the reason is that alerts are working but not satisfied condition to triggered activity. So Do one thing that in Unix app -> settings -> alerts enable all alerts and make threshold as minimum as possible. Then wait for some time and in alerts dashboard you can see alerts. Or in Activity -> Triggered alerts you can see alerts are triggered. And now you can also see headline in home page. ... View more