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Identifying Other Queries to Use for Alerts

There are queries that are not tagged as Action Alerts that are good candidates for including in a scheduled action alert because they retrieve only events evaluated as severe.

For example, Security Log Cleared by Host Detail retrieves all events where the event action is Security Log Clear. The only tag for this query is Operational Security.

Hover over a query to display its tags.

The action, Security Log Clear, is listed in the CEG. The CEG defines the following two event types with a security level mapped to 6, which is severe.

Category

Class

Action

Result

Security Level

Operational Security

Security Log Activity

Security Log Clear

Success

6

Operational Security

Security Log Activity

Security Log Clear

Failure

6

It is a good practice to schedule an alert with this query.

More information:

Identify the Simple Filter for Severe Events