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setfields

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setfields

Synopsis

Sets the field values for all results to a common value.

Syntax

setfields <setfields-arg>, ...

Arguments

setfields-arg
Syntax: string="<string>"
Description: A key-value pair with quoted value. Standard key cleaning will be performed, ie all non-alphanumeric characters will be replaced with '_' and leading '_' will be removed.

Description

Sets the value of the given fields to the specified values for each event in the result set. Delimit multiple definitions with commas. Missing fields are added, present fields are overwritten.

Examples

Example 1: Specify a value for the ip and foo fields.

... | setfields ip="10.10.10.10", foo="foo bar"

See also

fillnull, rename

This documentation applies to the following versions of Splunk: 4.0 , 4.0.1 , 4.0.2 , 4.0.3 , 4.0.4 , 4.0.5 , 4.0.6 , 4.0.7 , 4.0.8 , 4.0.9 , 4.0.10 , 4.0.11 View the Article History for its revisions.


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