Splunk Enterprise Security

Splunk Component Reboot/Restart Detected

sunitm
New Member

Hi,

Is there a way to notify if any splunk components were restarted. For Example-Deployment servers, Search heads etc.. were restarted and an user needs to be notified. Thanks in advance.

Regards,
Sunith

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ivanreis
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If I understood you question properly, do you want to know when the splunk service(splunkd) is restarted? If so this information is under _audit log
run this query : index=_audit action=restart_splunkd

you can create an alert to be notified when this happen.

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sunitm
New Member

Hello Ivan,

Thanks for your prompt reply. Yes this answers my query.

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ivanreis
Builder

If I understood you question properly, do you want to know when the splunk service(splunkd) is restarted? If so this information is under _audit log
run this query : index=_audit action=restart_splunkd

you can create an alert to be notified when this happen.

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