Alerting

Alert trigger conditions

danbutterman
Explorer

Hello Splunk community,

I have an alert setup that will trigger when a website status does not equal 200:

index=perfmon host="nameofsearchhead" sourcetype=httpstatus 
| where status!=200 
| lookup Prod-Websites.csv url AS url OUTPUTNEW server
| table _time,url,status

The results in the statistics tab show up as three columns: time, url, status code.

The alert currently triggers whenever I receive more than 4 results (which could be 5 different urls, that had a single non-200 event each).

I would like for the alert to trigger whenever I receive more than 4 results (non-200 events) for a single url, instead.

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somesoni2
Revered Legend

Try like this

Alert search

index=perfmon host="nameofsearchhead" sourcetype=httpstatus 
 | where status!=200 
 | lookup Prod-Websites.csv url AS url OUTPUTNEW server
 | table _time,url,status | eventstats count by url | where count>4

Alert condition

when number of results > 0

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somesoni2
Revered Legend

Try like this

Alert search

index=perfmon host="nameofsearchhead" sourcetype=httpstatus 
 | where status!=200 
 | lookup Prod-Websites.csv url AS url OUTPUTNEW server
 | table _time,url,status | eventstats count by url | where count>4

Alert condition

when number of results > 0

danbutterman
Explorer

Will do!

Thank you, somesoni2!

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