command

noun

An element of the search language used to interact with Splunk data.

The search language defines many commands that let you interact with Splunk and refine and modify your search results. Examples of commands are: stats, sort, where, and so on.

If necessary, you can expand Splunk's search language by creating custom search commands that carry out specialized Splunk interactions.

Search commands are also a knowledge object category.

Related forms

For more information

In the User manual:

In the Search Reference 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