I think I have been asking this question wrong. I have a need to generate an alert and send an e-mail if a new entry hits the database. I am finding this to be difficult for me as I am a novice to Splunk. I can tell you I have tried "earliest=-1h latest=now" but that only seems to go by the Splunk time stamp and that won't work for me, I need it to work with the "create_date" column in the DB. Or is there a better way of doing this?
Actually, I fixed this by changing the time stamp column in the DB input instead of using Splunks default time stamp. Fixed me right up! Thanks though!
Hi,
You can filter your search to all records with a 'create_date' value within the last 5 minutes using:
<your_search_here> | WHERE strptime(create_date, <time_format here> > relative_time(now(), "-5m")
You can then save this as an alert and set it run every 5 minutes, setting the trigger action to send an email.