Create a Splunk Alert that Checks Logs Every 5 minutes

Refer: http://answers.splunk.com/answers/149182/alert-when-splunk-user-did-not-login-for-last-15-minutes.html

Create an Alert and these are the key pieces:

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index=book2-prod-app-porta | head 1 | eval age = now() - _time

crontab run every 5 minutes
*/5 * * * *

# This is for 300 seconds or 5 minutes
Custom Condition: search age > 300

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