The installation manual includes system requirements, licensing information, and procedures for installing or migrating Splunk.
Splunk Release Notes include information about new features, known issues, and fixed problems.
Splunk distributed deployments range in size from small to extremely large. This manual describes how to scale your deployment to fit the precise data needs of your enterprise. It explains how you can use the various Splunk components like forwarders, indexers, and search heads, to distribute Splunk functionality across multiple machines.
This manual tells you how to get your data into Splunk. It covers everything you need to do to ensure that Splunk indexes all your machine data, in a way that make it easy to search and use effectively.
This manual provides information and procedures to help users investigate problems and report on results. If you're new to Splunk, check out the overview and then proceed to the Splunk Tutorial! It guides you through adding data, searching your data, and building simple reports and dashboards.
This manual provides a reference for the Splunk user who is looking for a catalog of the search commands with complete syntax, descriptions, and examples for usage. If you want to just jump right in and start searching, check out the Search command cheat sheet--it's a quick guide, complete with descriptions and examples.
As you use Splunk, knowledge objects are created, including event types, tags, lookups, field extractions, workflow actions, saved searches, and views. This manual demonstrates ways that you can use Splunk knowledge to solve real-world problems, and shows you how to maintain large sets of knowledge objects for your organization.
This manual describes various aspects of administering Splunk. It covers a wide range of material, including critical subjects like getting started with Splunk administration, managing licenses, configuring Splunk, managing users, and using the command line interface. It includes a comprehensive reference for all the Splunk configuration files.
Provides information, procedures, and examples on how to create dashboards, advanced views, and Splunk apps. Content in this manual focuses mostly on advanced techniques, such as editing XML source files and creating set up pages for an app. Prior to Splunk 4.3, this manual was titled ''Splunk Developer Manual.''
The Troubleshooting Manual gets you started solving problems, should one occur with your Splunk instance.
Provides reference documentation on all publicly accessible Splunk REST API endpoints. The introduction provides instructions on how to use the REST API plus examples that illustrate common use cases.