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Advanced Splunk
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Advanced Splunk

by Ashish Kumar Tulsiram Yadav
June 2016
Beginner to intermediate
348 pages
7h 45m
English
Packt Publishing
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Enhanced alert actions

We already covered custom alert actions in detail in Chapter 9, Advanced Dashboard Customization. In this section, you will learn what new features have been introduced in the Splunk 6.4 release.

Splunk 6.4 has a new feature to choose from the action list of alert actions, that is, it sends log events to the Splunk receiver endpoint. In the following figure, the option marked in the rectangular box is the newly added feature in Splunk 6.4 under alert actions.

This option helps users to redirect the alert log data to Splunk again under the specified sourcetype or index. The alert that used to either trigger e-mails, webhook, or any other defined custom action can also be sent on Splunk for analysis in future. This feature can ...

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