Chapter 8. Being Proactive – Creating Alerts

In this chapter, we will learn about the alerting capabilities within Splunk. You will learn about:

  • Alerting on abnormal web page response times
  • Alerting on errors during checkout in real time
  • Alerting on abnormal user behavior
  • Alerting on failure and triggering a scripted response
  • Alerting when predicted sales exceed inventory

Introduction

Throughout the previous chapters in this book, you created a great deal of Splunk searches, including historic searches that look back over a period of time and real-time searches. In this chapter, you will learn about alerting—arguably, one of Splunk's most powerful features.

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