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Alerts

The fields and tags in the Alerts data model describe the alerts produced by alerting systems, such as Nagios or NetCool, for use in Splunk correlation searches or dashboards. They are not to be used to describe Splunk Alerts or Notable Events, which are already modeled in other contexts.

Note: A dataset is a component of a data model. In versions of the Splunk platform prior to version 6.5.0, these were referred to as data model objects.

Tags used with the Alerts event dataset

The following tag acts as constraint to identify your events as being relevant to this data model. For more information, see How to use these reference tables.

Dataset name Tag name
Alerts alert

Fields for the Alerts event dataset

The following table lists the extracted and calculated fields for the event dataset in the model. The table does not include any inherited fields. For more information, see How to use these reference tables.

Dataset name Field name Data type Description Abbreviated list of example values
Alerts app string The application involved in the event, such as win:app:trendmicro, vmware, nagios.
Alerts body string The body of a message.
Alerts dest string The destination of the alert message, such as an email address or SNMP trap. You can alias this from more specific fields, such as dest_host, dest_ip, or dest_name.
Alerts dest_bunit string The business unit associated with the destination.

This field is automatically provided by asset and identity correlation features of applications like Splunk Enterprise Security. Do not define extractions for this field when writing add-ons.
Alerts dest_category string The category of the destination.

This field is automatically provided by asset and identity correlation features of applications like Splunk Enterprise Security. Do not define extractions for this field when writing add-ons.
Alerts dest_priority string The priority of the destination.

This field is automatically provided by asset and identity correlation features of applications like Splunk Enterprise Security. Do not define extractions for this field when writing add-ons.
Alerts id string The unique identifier of a message.
Alerts severity string The severity of a message.

Note: This field is a string. Please use a severity_id field for severity ID fields that are integer data types. Specific values are required. Please use vendor_severity for the vendor's own human-readable strings (such as Good, Bad, Really Bad, and so on).
critical, high, medium, low, informational
Alerts severity_id string A numeric severity indicator for a message.
Alerts src string The source of the message. You can alias this from more specific fields, such as src_host, src_ip, or src_name.
Alerts src_bunit string The business unit associated with the source.

This field is automatically provided by asset and identity correlation features of applications like Splunk Enterprise Security. Do not define extractions for this field when writing add-ons.
Alerts src_category string The category of the source.

This field is automatically provided by asset and identity correlation features of applications like Splunk Enterprise Security. Do not define extractions for this field when writing add-ons.
Alerts src_priority string The priority of the source.

This field is automatically provided by asset and identity correlation features of applications like Splunk Enterprise Security. Do not define extractions for this field when writing add-ons.
Alerts subject string The message subject.
Alerts tag string This automatically generated field is used to access tags from within data models. Do not define extractions for this field when writing add-ons.
Alerts type string The message type. alarm, alert, event, task
Last modified on 07 May, 2020
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This documentation applies to the following versions of Splunk® Common Information Model Add-on: 4.1.0, 4.1.1, 4.2.0, 4.3.0, 4.3.1, 4.4.0, 4.5.0, 4.6.0, 4.7.0, 4.8.0, 4.9.0, 4.9.1, 4.10.0, 4.11.0, 4.12.0, 4.13.0, 4.14.0, 4.15.0


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