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Admin Manual

 


Welcome
What to do first
Start Splunk
Meet Splunk Web and Splunk Apps
Before you configure
Add data and configure inputs
Indexing and event processing
Timestamps
Add and manage users
Manage indexes
Define alerts
Set up backups and retention policies
Configure data security
Set up forwarding and receiving
Deploy to other Splunk instances
Set up distributed search
Manage search jobs
Use Splunk's command line interface (CLI)
Configuration file reference
Troubleshooting

Not finding the events you're looking for?

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Not finding the events you're looking for?

When you add an input to Splunk, that input gets added relative to the App you're in. Some Apps, like the *nix and Windows Apps that ship with Splunk, write input data to a specific index (in the case of *Nix and Windows, that is the 'os' index). If you're not finding data that you're certain is in Splunk, be sure that you're looking at the right index. You may want to add the 'os' index to the list of default indexes for the role you're using. For more information about roles, refer to the topic about roles in this manual.

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This documentation applies to the following versions of Splunk: 4.0 , 4.0.1 , 4.0.2 , 4.0.3 , 4.0.4 View the Article History for its revisions.


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