What's in the User Manual?
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What's in the User Manual?
This manual teaches end users about Splunk and how to use Splunk search. This manual focuses primarily on accomplishing tasks through the web interface, Splunk Web, and the command line interface.
To help you start using Splunk, run through the Tutorial. The chapters following the tutorial focus on tasks, such as adding inputs, searching, setting alerts, and building reports. The manual ends with reference pages for search syntax, commands, and modifiers.
Refer to the search cheatsheet to help you construct useful searches right away.
Take note:
- Before using Splunk, review the Installation guide for system requirements and step-by-step installation procedures.
- System administrators should refer to the Administration guide for advanced configuration and data management topics.
- Those interested in customizing Splunk and creating applications for Splunk should refer to the Developer guide.
Find what you need
You can use the table of contents to the left of this panel, or simply search for what you want in the search box in the upper right.
If you're interested in more specific scenarios and best practices, you can visit the Splunk Community Wiki to see how other users Splunk IT.
This documentation applies to the following versions of Splunk: 3.3 , 3.3.1 , 3.3.2 , 3.3.3 , 3.3.4 , 3.4 , 3.4.1 , 3.4.2 , 3.4.3 , 3.4.5 , 3.4.6 , 3.4.8 , 3.4.9 , 3.4.10 , 3.4.11 , 3.4.12 , 3.4.13 , 3.4.14 View the Article History for its revisions.