What's in this guide?
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What's in this guide?
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 manual for system requirements and step-by-step installation guides.
- System administrators should refer to the Administration and Deployment manuals for advanced configuration and data management topics.
- Those interested in customizing Splunk and creating applications for Splunk should refer to the Developer manual.
- You can also share custom Splunk applications with other members of the Splunk community via SplunkBase.
This documentation applies to the following versions of Splunk: 3.2 , 3.2.1 , 3.2.2 , 3.2.3 , 3.2.4 , 3.2.5 , 3.2.6 , 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.