Understanding Search - Implementing Splunk: Big Data Reporting and Development for Operational Intelligence - page 45

Actions
Once we've set all of our options, we can click on Next >> to proceed to Actions .
The Actions pane is where you decide what you want to do with the results of your
alert. There are several options under Enable actions , as follows:
• Send email : This is the most common action. Simply fill out the list of e-mail
addresses. The resulting e-mail will always contain a link back to this Splunk
server, directly to the search results. You can customize the Subject string
and optionally include the results of the search in the e-mail.