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Admin Manual

 


Welcome to Splunk administration
What to do first
Use Splunk Web
Getting started for Windows admins
Manage Splunk licenses
Meet Splunk apps
Configure Splunk
Indexing with Splunk
Manage users
Manage indexes
Define alerts
Set up backups and retention policies
Configure data security
Manage search jobs
Use Splunk's command line interface (CLI)
Configuration file reference
Troubleshooting

What is Splunk?

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What is Splunk?

Splunk is an IT search engine.

  • You can use Splunk to search and navigate IT data from applications, servers, and network devices in real-time.
  • Data sources include logs, configurations, messages, alerts, scripts, code, metrics, etc.
  • Splunk lets you search, navigate, alert, and report on all your IT data in real-time using Splunk Web.

Learn more about what Splunk is, what it does, and how it's different.

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This documentation applies to the following versions of Splunk: 4.1 , 4.1.1 , 4.1.2 , 4.1.3 , 4.1.4 , 4.1.5 , 4.1.6 , 4.1.7 , 4.1.8 , 4.2 , 4.2.1 , 4.2.2 , 4.2.3 , 4.2.4 , 4.2.5 , 4.3 , 4.3.1 , 4.3.2 , 4.3.3 , 4.3.4 , 4.3.5 , 4.3.6 View the Article History for its revisions.


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