CLI

noun

An acronym referring to Splunk's command line interface (CLI), which is a text-only interface used for entering system commands, editing configuration files, and running searches on a Splunk server.

Splunk provides a variety of command line tools that can help to troubleshoot deployment and configuration issues.


Related terms

For more information

In the Admin Manual:

In the Search Reference Manual:

In the Developer Manual:

configuration

configuration file

event processing

character set encoding

segmentation

segment

timestamping

timestamp, timezone offset

default field extraction

host, source, source type, punct


archiving

retention time